Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control

Article	Citations
Are there reasons behind high Handrub consumption? A French National in-depth qualitative assessment	202
Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 infection following rituximab treatment: clinical course and response to therapeutic interventions correlated with quantitative viral cultures and cycle threshold values	128
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Systematic review and meta-analysis of the epidemiology of vancomycin-resistance Staphylococcus aureus isolates	101
Virus matrix interference on assessment of virucidal activity of high-touch surfaces designed to prevent hospital-acquired infections	80
Tuberculosis infection prevention and control in rural Papua New Guinea: an evaluation using the infection prevention and control assessment framework	71
Developing a framework for regular and sustainable qualitative assessment of antibiotic use in Korean medical institutions: a Delphi study	66
The state of hand rub dispensers in healthcare settings – a multicenter assessment in 19 German healthcare facilities	66
Barriers to infection prevention and control in long-term care/assisted living settings in British Columbia during the COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional survey	57
Where to from here? Identifying and prioritising future directions for addressing drug-resistant infection in Australia	46
Active surveillance testing to reduce transmission of carbapenem-resistant, gram-negative bacteria in intensive care units: a pragmatic, randomized cross-over trial	44
Barriers to rational antibiotic prescription in Iran: a descriptive qualitative study	40
Estimating the population-level prevalence of antimicrobial-resistant enteric bacteria from latrine samples	39
Documentation of adherence to infection prevention best practice in patient records: a mixed-methods investigation	35
Challenges and success stories of the implementation of infection control and antimicrobial stewardship strategies: proceedings of the 5th Global Ministerial Summit on Patient Safety, 2023	35
Indwelling time of peripherally inserted central catheters and incidence of bloodstream infections in haematology patients: a cohort study	33
The accuracy of fully-automated algorithms for the surveillance of central venous catheter-related bloodstream infection in hospitalised patients	32
Characterizing the bioburden of ESBL-producing organisms in a neonatal unit using chromogenic culture media: a feasible and efficient environmental sampling method	31
Prevalence of meropenem-resistant Pseudomonas Aeruginosa in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta‑analysis	31
Risk of nosocomial coronavirus disease 2019: comparison between single- and multiple-occupancy rooms	30
Acceptability of an alcohol-based handrub gel with superfatting agents among healthcare workers: a randomized crossover controlled study	29
Exploring the use of cluster analysis to assess antibiotic stewardship in critically-ill neonates in a low resource setting	29
Non-prescriptionxx antibiotic use for people aged 15 years or older for cough in China: a community-based survey	29
Reported antibiotic use among patients in the multicenter ANDEMIA infectious diseases surveillance study in sub-saharan Africa	29
The combined application of hand hygiene and non-sterile gloves by nurses in a tertiary hospital: a multi methods study	28
Appropriate number of observations for determining hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers	27

Contact time has limited impact on the efficacy of disinfectant towelettes when tested under conditions reflective of realistic use	27
Are emojis ready to promote the WHO 5 moments for hand hygiene in healthcare?	27
Effectiveness of postoperative oral administration of cephalexin and metronidazole on surgical site infection among obese women undergoing cesarean section: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-control	25
Lower risk of bloodstream infections for peripherally inserted central catheters compared to central venous catheters in critically ill patients	25
Prevalence of and factors associated with inappropriate Clostridioides difficile testing in a teaching hospital in Korea	25
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales sepsis following endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography: risk factors for 30-day all-cause mortality and the development of a nomogram based on a retrospe	25
A mandatory indication-registration tool in hospital electronic medical records enabling systematic evaluation and benchmarking of the quality of antimicrobial use: a feasibility study	24
Extended spectrum and metalo beta lactamase producing gram negative bacterial pathogens from cockroaches collected at hospital, Southern Ethiopia	24
A qualitative study of barriers to antimicrobial stewardship in Indonesian hospitals: governance, competing interests, cost, and structural vulnerability	24
Evaluation of a novel surface-coating formulation with time-extended antimicrobial activity for healthcare environment disinfection	23
On the onset and dispersal of a major MDR TB clone among HIV-negative patients, Tunisia	23
Antibiotic use by poultry farmers in Kiambu County, Kenya: exploring practices and drivers of potential overuse	23
A large-scale investigation of alcohol-based handrub (ABHR) volume: hand coverage correlations utilizing an innovative quantitative evaluation system	23
Decontaminating N95/FFP2 masks for reuse during the COVID-19 epidemic: a systematic review	23
Gram-negative bacterial infections in surgical intensive care unit patients following abdominal surgery: high mortality associated with Stenotrophomonas maltophilia infection	22
Trends in the antimicrobial susceptibility among Chinese neonates from 2012 to 2021: a multicenter study	22
Dissemination of clinical Escherichia coli strains harboring mcr-1, blaNDM−7 and siderophore-producing plasmids in a Chinese hospital	22
Antibiotic consumption in long-term care facilities in Poland and other European countries in 2017	22
Knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of Egyptians towards antibiotic use in the community: can we do better?	22
Evaluation of a multimodal intervention to promote rational antibiotic use in primary care	21
Resident-, prescriber-, and facility-level factors associated with antibiotic use in long-term care facilities: a systematic review of quantitative studies	21
A pseudo-outbreak of MRSA due to laboratory contamination related to MRSA carriage of a laboratory staff member	21
Antimicrobial use among paediatric inpatients at hospital sites within the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program, 2017/2018	21
Knowledge, attitude and practice of infection prevention and control precautions among laboratory staff: a mixed-methods systematic review	20
Clinical risk factors for admission with Pseudomonas and multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas community-acquired pneumonia	20
The danger of the toxicity and inefficacy of alcohol-based hand rubs in Iran during COVID-19: a cross-sectional study	20
Bacterial ventriculoperitoneal shunt infections: changing trends in antimicrobial susceptibility, a 7-year retrospective study from Pakistan	19
Beyond the operating room: do hospital characteristics have an impact on surgical site infections after colorectal surgery? A systematic review	19
Abstracts from the 6th international conference on prevention & infection control (ICPIC 2021)	19
Nurses’ contribution to antimicrobial stewardship: business as usual?	19
Development and validation of machine learning models to predict MDRO colonization or infection on ICU admission by using electronic health record data	19
Time for a renewed focus on the role of cleaners in achieving safe health care in low- and middle-income countries	19
Health system barriers to the implementation of the national action plan to combat antimicrobial resistance in Vietnam: a scoping review	19
Staphylococcus aureus - selective reporting of antibiogram results and its impact on antibiotic use: Interventional study with a reference group on the effect of switching from non-selective to select	19
Community drug retail outlet staff’s knowledge, attitudes and practices towards non-prescription antibiotics use and antibiotic resistance in the Amhara region, Ethiopia with a focus on non-urban town	18
Effectiveness of chlorhexidine in preventing infections among patients undergoing cardiac surgeries: a meta-analysis and systematic review	18
First nationwide survey of infection prevention and control among healthcare facilities in Japan: impact of the national regulatory system	18
Pharmacies and use of antibiotics: a cross sectional study in 19 Arab countries	18
Genomic analysis of Staphylococcus aureus from the West African Dwarf (WAD) goat in Nigeria	18
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in COVID-19 patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis (November 2019–June 2021)	18
Effect of temperature on Escherichia coli bloodstream infection in a nationwide population-based study of incidence and resistance	18
Contextual barriers to infection prevention and control program implementation in hospitals in Latin America: a mixed methods evaluation	17
Enhancing clinical microbiology for genomic surveillance of antimicrobial resistance implementation in Africa	17
Efficacy of mupirocin, neomycin and octenidine for nasal Staphylococcus aureus decolonisation: a retrospective cohort study	17
A multicentric survey and single-centre observational study of usage behaviour of sinks in intensive care: training is needed to minimize risk	17
Carbapenemase-producing enterobacterales colonisation status does not lead to more frequent admissions: a linked patient study	17
Compliance with infection prevention and control standard precautions and factors associated with noncompliance among healthcare workers working in public hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	17
Closing the antimicrobial stewardship gap - a call for LMICs to embrace the global antimicrobial stewardship accreditation scheme	16
Genetic mechanisms and correlated risk factors of antimicrobial-resistant ESKAPEE pathogens isolated in a tertiary hospital in Malaysia	16
Genome profiling of uropathogenic E. coli from strictly defined community-acquired UTI in paediatric patients: a multicentric study	16

Systematic review on use, cost and clinical efficacy of automated decontamination devices	16
Determinants of orthopedic physicians’ self-reported compliance with surgical site infection prevention: results of the WACH-trial’s pilot survey on COM-B factors in a German university hospital	16
Clinical significance and burden of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) colonization acquisition in hospitalized patients	16
Evaluation of the implementation of WHO infection prevention and control core components in Turkish health care facilities: results from a WHO infection prevention and control assessment framework (IP	16
Impact of sterile gloving during proximal manipulation of central line catheter hub: the multicenter observational study CleanHandPROX	16
Baseline study for improving diagnostic stewardship at secondary health care facilities in Nigeria	16
Impact of tooth brushing on oral bacteriota and health care-associated infections among ventilated COVID-19 patients: an intervention study	15
Oral vancomycin use and incidence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci: time-series analysis	15
Prevalence of antimicrobial resistance and its clinical implications in Ethiopia: a systematic review	15
The effect of 100% single-occupancy rooms on acquisition of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales and intra-hospital patient transfers: a prospective before-and-after study	15
Correction: Impact of tooth brushing on oral bacteriota and health care-associated infections among ventilated COVID-19 patients: an intervention study	15
Faecal microbiota transplantation reduces amounts of antibiotic resistance genes in patients with multidrug-resistant organisms	15
Prevalence and characterization of antimicrobial resistance among gram-negative bacteria isolated from febrile hospitalized patients in central Ethiopia	15
Clinically relevant sequence types of carbapenemase-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae detected in Finnish wastewater in 2021–2022	15
Healthcare institutions’ recommendation regarding the use of FFP-2 masks and SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity among healthcare workers: a multicenter longitudinal cohort study	15
Efficacy of a coordinated strategy for containment of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria carriage in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in the context of an active surveillance program	14
Vaginal colonization with antimicrobial-resistant bacteria among women in labor in central Uganda: prevalence and associated factors	14
Provision of safe patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic despite shared patient rooms in a tertiary hospital	14
Cutibacterium avidum resists surgical skin antisepsis in the groin—a potential risk factor for periprosthetic joint infection: a quality control study	14
Efficacy and safety of preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infection by inhibiting catheter bacterial biofilm formation: a multicenter randomized controlled trial	14
The potential for the double risk of rabies and antimicrobial resistance in a high rabies endemic setting: detection of antibiotic resistance in bacterial isolates from infected dog bite wounds in Uga	14
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales infection and colonization in patients with severe burns: a retrospective cohort study in a single burn center	14
Health care systems administrators perspectives on antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention and control programs across three healthcare levels: a qualitative study	14
Knowledge and attitude of healthcare prescribers and pharmacists toward antimicrobial stewardship program and the barriers for its implementation	14
Molecular epidemiology, microbiological features and infection control strategies for carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a German burn and plastic surgery center (2020–2022)	13
Preparing for future waves and pandemics: a global hospital survey on infection control measures and infection rates in COVID-19	13
Staphylococcus aureus surgical site infection rates in 5 European countries	13
Investigating environmental transmission to resolve a Bacillus cereus group outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit using core genome multilocus sequence typing	13
Escherichia coli from urine samples of pregnant women as an indicator for antimicrobial resistance in the community: a field study from rural Burkina Faso	12
What fuels suboptimal care of peripheral intravenous catheter-related infections in hospitals? A qualitative study of decision-making among Spanish nurses	12
Sequence type 17 is a predictor of subsequent bacteremia in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium-colonized patients: a retrospective cohort study	12
Colonization of patients hospitalized at orthopedic department of tertiary hospital in Uganda with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing enterobacterales	12
Incremental costs of hospital-acquired infections in COVID-19 patients in an adult intensive care unit of a tertiary hospital from a low-resource setting	12
Effectiveness of annual influenza campaigns and vaccination in reducing influenza burden in nursing homes of Canton Vaud in Switzerland	12
Vancomycin resistant enterococcus risk factors for hospital colonization in hematological patients: a matched case-control study	12
Assessing the potential for improved predictive capacity of antimicrobial resistance in outpatient Staphylococcus aureus isolates using seasonal and spatial antibiograms	11
Do task and item difficulty affect overestimation of one’s hand hygiene compliance? A cross-sectional survey of physicians and nurses in surgical clinics of six hospitals in Germany	11
Impact of vancomycin use trend change due to the availability of alternative antibiotics on the prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus with reduced vancomycin susceptibility: a 14-year retrospective stud	11
SARS-CoV-2 risk in household contacts of healthcare workers: a prospective cohort study	11
Implementation of the Infection Risk Scan (IRIS) in nine hospitals in the Belgian-Dutch border region (i-4-1-Health project)	11
Intensivists’ beliefs about rapid multiplex molecular diagnostic testing and its potential role in improving prescribing decisions and antimicrobial stewardship: a qualitative study	11
Activity of antimicrobial examination gloves under realistic conditions: challenge not fulfilled	11
Microbiological trends and mortality risk factors of central line-associated bloodstream infections in an academic medical center 2015–2020	11
Sustainable neonatal CLABSI surveillance: consensus towards new criteria in the Netherlands	11
Patients exposed to vancomycin-resistant enterococci during in-hospital outbreaks in a low endemic setting: a proposal for risk-based screening	11
Do we cause false positives? An experimental series on droplet or airborne SARS-CoV-2 contamination of sampling tubes during swab collection in a test center	11
Admission screening and cohort care decrease carbapenem resistant enterobacteriaceae in Vietnamese pediatric ICU’s	11
Predictive performance of automated surveillance algorithms for intravascular catheter bloodstream infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Surveillance of catheter-associated bloodstream infections: development and validation of a fully automated algorithm	11
The environmental impact and sustainability of infection control practices: a systematic scoping review	11
Comparing automated surveillance systems for detection of pathogen-related clusters in healthcare settings	10
Epidemiology of extended-spectrum β-lactamase–producing Enterobacterales infection in kidney transplant recipients	10
Antimicrobial use of patients with sexually transmitted infection symptoms prior to presentation at five health facilities in Southern Ghana	10
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the treatment of common infections in primary care and the change to antibiotic prescribing in England	10
Combined antibiotic stewardship and infection control measures to contain the spread of linezolid-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis in an intensive care unit	10
Mind the gap: knowledge, attitudes and perceptions on antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention and control in long-term care facilities for people with disabilities	10
Knowledge, attitudes, and readiness about critical antimicrobial resistant organisms among healthcare workers at colonial war memorial hospital in Fiji: a pre and post intervention study	10
Implementing a healthcare-associated bloodstream infection surveillance network in India: a mixed-methods study on the best practices, challenges and opportunities, 2022	10
International Conference on Prevention and Infection Control 2023	10
Obesity and the risk of catheter-related bloodstream infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Improving hand hygiene practices in two regional hospitals in Kenya using a continuous quality improvement (CQI) approach	10
Small quantities of respiratory syncytial virus RNA only in large droplets around infants hospitalized with acute respiratory infections	10
An evaluation of a Stenotrophomonas maltophilia outbreak due to commercial arterial blood gas collection kit	10
Cross-site collaboration on infection prevention and control research—room for improvement? A 7-year comparative study in five European countries	10
A practice guide on antimicrobial stewardship in nursing homes	9
Appropriate antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance: knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of medical students and their needs and preferences for learning	9
Uncovering the spread of drug-resistant bacteria through next-generation sequencing based surveillance: transmission of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales by a contaminated duode	9
Risk factors for norovirus infection in healthcare workers during nosocomial outbreaks: a cross-sectional study	9
Assessment of antimicrobial stewardship programmes and antibiotic use among children admitted to two hospitals in Sierra Leone: a cross-sectional study	9
Effectiveness and sustainability of the WHO multimodal hand hygiene improvement strategy in the University Hospital Bouaké, Republic of Côte d'Ivoire in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Infection prevention and control (IPC) implementation in low-resource settings: a qualitative analysis	9
Teaching prudent antibiotic use on the go: a descriptive report on development, utilization and listener satisfaction of an educational podcast format for medical students and young professionals	9
Long-term exposure to food-grade disinfectants causes cross-resistance to antibiotics in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium strains with different antibiograms and sequence types	9
Investigating potential transmission of antimicrobial resistance in an open-plan hospital ward: a cross-sectional metagenomic study of resistome dispersion in a lower middle-income setting	9
Real-world experience of how chlorhexidine bathing affects the acquisition and incidence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) in a medical intensive care unit with VRE endemicity: a prospective i	9
The in situ efficacy of whole room disinfection devices: a literature review with practical recommendations for implementation	9
Under Armour – Use of personal protective equipment for simulated CPR of COVID-19 patients: an observational study	9
Federated systems for automated infection surveillance: a perspective	9
Impact of environmental hygiene interventions on healthcare-associated infections and patient colonization: a systematic review	9
Hip prosthesis and colon surgery, a decade of surveillance on surgical site infections in Italy, a prospective cohort study: rates, trends, and disease burden in DALYs	9

Prevalence of colistin resistance in clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii: a systematic review and meta-analysis	9
Case report of the first cured patient with Mycobacterium Chimaera infection following cardiac valve replacement in the mainland of China	9
Education level and misuse of antibiotics in the general population: a systematic review and dose–response meta-analysis	9
Exploring the economic impact of inappropriate antibiotic use: the case of upper respiratory tract infections in Ghana	9
On-site evaluation as external quality assessment of microbiology laboratories involved in sentinel laboratory-based antimicrobial resistance surveillance network in Burkina Faso	9
Train-the-Trainers in hand hygiene facilitate the implementation of the WHO hand hygiene multimodal improvement strategy in Japan: evidence for the role of local trainers, adaptation, and sustainabili	9
Guidance of empirical antimicrobial therapy by surveillance cultures in high-risk neutropenic patients: a retrospective cohort study	9
Investigation of possible transmission of a susceptible microorganism through a contaminated duodenoscope; a case report	8
Determination of antimicrobial use in commercial poultry farms in Plateau and Oyo States, Nigeria	8
Outbreak investigations after identifying carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa: a systematic review	8
Are coveralls required as personal protective equipment during the management of COVID-19 patients?	8
Blood culture utilization and epidemiology of antimicrobial-resistant bloodstream infections before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Indonesian national referral hospital	8
Patterns of multidrug resistant organism acquisition in an adult specialist burns service: a retrospective review	8
A cross-sectional study of antimicrobial use among self-medicating COVID-19 cases in Nyeri County, Kenya	8
Validation of the first computerized indicator for orthopaedic surgical site infections in France: ISO-ORTHO	8
Increasing incidence and antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli bloodstream infections: a multinational population-based cohort study	8
Prevalence of pathogenic Klebsiella pneumoniae based on PCR capsular typing harbouring carbapenemases encoding genes in Uganda tertiary hospitals	8
The surgical interval between robot-assisted SEEG and epilepsy resection surgery is an influencing factor of SSI	8
Does continuity in nursing staff matter? A pilot study on correlation of central line-associated bloodstream infections and employee turnover	8
Antimicrobial prescribing in French nursing homes and interventions for antimicrobial stewardship: a qualitative study	7
Correction: A multi-institutional exploration of emergency medicine physicians’ attitudes and behaviours on antibiotic use during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods study	7
Routes of transmission of VIM-positive Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the adult intensive care unit-analysis of 9 years of surveillance at a university hospital using a mathematical model	7
The COVID-19 pandemic and N95 masks: reusability and decontamination methods	7
Bacterial contamination of mobile handwashing stations in hospital settings in the Democratic Republic of the Congo	7
Gamified antimicrobial decision support app (GADSA) changes antibiotics prescription behaviour in surgeons in Nigeria: a hospital-based pilot study	7
Assessment of antibiotic resistance changes during the Covid-19 pandemic in northeast of Iran during 2020–2022: an epidemiological study	7
Drivers of global media attention and representations for antimicrobial resistance risk: an analysis of online English and Chinese news media data, 2015–2018	7
Barriers to implementing antimicrobial stewardship programs in three low- and middle-income country tertiary care settings: findings from a multi-site qualitative study	7
WHO/INRUD prescribing indicators with a focus on antibiotics utilization patterns at outpatient department of Adigrat general hospital, Tigrai, Ethiopia: a retrospective cross-sectional study	7
Usefulness of dynamic regression time series models for studying the relationship between antimicrobial consumption and bacterial antimicrobial resistance in hospitals: a systematic review	7
Predictors of physicians’ intentions to use clinical practice guidelines on antimicrobial in tertiary general hospitals of China: a structural equation modeling approach	7
A qualitative study of infection prevention and control practices in the maternal units of two Ghanaian hospitals	7
Antibiotic dispensing practices during COVID-19 and implications for antimicrobial resistance (AMR): parallel mystery client studies in Uganda and Tanzania	7
Animal source food eating habits of outpatients with antimicrobial resistance in Bukavu, D.R. Congo	7
Rate of nosocomial MRSA transmission evaluated via contact screening	7
Low frequency of community-acquired bacterial co-infection in patients hospitalized for COVID-19 based on clinical, radiological and microbiological criteria: a retrospective cohort study	7
Assessment of knowledge and implementation practices of the ventilator acquired pneumonia (VAP) bundle in the intensive care unit of a private hospital	7
Correction: Burden of five healthcare associated infections in Australia	7
Patient and ward related risk factors in a multi-ward nosocomial outbreak of COVID-19: Outbreak investigation and matched case–control study	7
Prevalence of self-medication practices with antibiotics and associated factors among students in five colleges in Eritrea: a cross-sectional study	7
Fecal carriage of ESBL-producing E. coli and genetic characterization in rural children and livestock in the Somali region, Ethiopia: a one health approach	7
Trends in prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli isolated from patients with community- and healthcare-associated bacteriuria: results from 2014 to 2020 in an urban	7
Temporal trends in antimicrobial resistance of medically important pathogens on Curaçao	7
Empiric antimicrobial therapy in the intensive care unit based on the risk of multidrug-resistant bacterial infection: a single-centre case‒control study of blood culture results in Japan	7
Tanzanian primary healthcare workers’ experiences of antibiotic prescription and understanding of antibiotic resistance in common childhood infections: a qualitative phenomenographic study	7
Antibiotic use in children under 5 years of age in Northern Tanzania: a qualitative study exploring the experiences of the caring mothers	6
Correction: The effect of 100% single-occupancy rooms on acquisition of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales and intra-hospital patient transfers: a prospective before-and-after	6
Effective infection prevention and control measures in long-term care facilities in non-outbreak and outbreak settings: a systematic literature review	6
APSIC guide for prevention of catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs)	6
Identifying risk factors for carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii carriage upon admission: a case-case control study	6
Risk factors for nosocomial rectal colonization with carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in hospital: a matched case–control study	6
Association between quality of governance, antibiotic consumption, and antimicrobial resistance: an analysis of Italian regions	6
Disinfection of incubators in neonatal intensive care units: impact of steam pulverization on bacterial colonization	6
Dimensions of poverty as risk factors for antimicrobial resistant organisms in Canada: a structured narrative review	6
Foley catheter with noble metal alloy coating for preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections: a large, multi-center clinical trial	6
Establishment and validation of a nomogram to predict the in-hospital death risk of nosocomial infections in cancer patients	6
Core components of infection prevention and control programs at the facility level in Georgia: key challenges and opportunities	6
Not recommended fixed-dose antibiotic combinations in low- and middle-income countries – the example of Tanzania	6
Automated surveillance for surgical site infections (SSI) in hospitals and surveillance networks–expert perspectives for implementation	6
Microbiologically confirmed infections and antibiotic-resistance in a national surveillance study of hospitalised patients who died with COVID-19, Italy 2020–2021	6
The impact of a ‘milking the COW’ campaign in a regional hospital in Singapore	6
Cost-effectiveness of strategies to control the spread of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales in hospitals: a modelling study	6
Antimicrobial resistance control in the emergency department: a need for concrete improvement	6
Effectiveness of enhanced check during acute phase to reduce central venous catheters-associated bloodstream infections: a before-after, real-world study	6
The epidemiology of bloodstream infections and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns in Thuringia, Germany: a five-year prospective, state-wide surveillance study (AlertsNet)	6
Pre-COVID-19 international travel and admission to hospital when back home: travel behavior, carriage of highly resistant microorganisms, and risk perception of patients admitted to a large tertiary c	6
Effectiveness of tailored screening for multidrug-resistant organisms upon admission to an intensive care unit in the United Arab Emirates	6
A narrative review on current duodenoscope reprocessing techniques and novel developments	6
SARS-CoV-2 aerosol generation during respiratory equipment reprocessing	6
Description of a nationwide structure for monitoring nosocomial outbreaks of (highly resistant) microorganisms in the Netherlands: characteristics of outbreaks in 2012–2021	5
Prophylactic antimicrobials may not be needed to prevent surgical site infection after skin biopsy: a retrospective study	5
Infection prevention and control in tertiary care hospitals of Bangladesh: results from WHO infection prevention and control assessment framework (IPCAF)	5
Management of a hospital-wide vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium outbreak in a Dutch general hospital, 2014–2017: successful control using a restrictive screening strategy	5
Epidemiology of carbapenem-resistant and carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales in the Netherlands 2017–2019	5
Prevalence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococci in India between 2000 and 2022: a systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Temporal trends, risk factors and outcomes of infections due to extended-spectrum β-lactamase producing Enterobacterales in Swiss solid organ transplant recipients between 2012 and 2018	5
Staphylococcus aureus screening and preoperative decolonisation with Mupirocin and Chlorhexidine to reduce the risk of surgical site infections in orthopaedic surgery: a pre-post study	5
Perinatal colonization with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing and carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacteria: a hospital-based cohort study	5
Risk factors for in-hospital mortality and secondary bacterial pneumonia among hospitalized adult patients with community-acquired influenza: a large retrospective cohort study	5
A road-map for addressing antimicrobial resistance in low- and middle-income countries: lessons learnt from the public private participation and co-designed antimicrobial stewardship programme in the	5
The prevalence and clinical context of antimicrobial resistance amongst medical inpatients at a referral hospital in Rwanda: a cohort study	5
Antibiotic utilisation and resistance over the first decade of nationally funded antimicrobial stewardship programmes in Singapore acute-care hospitals	5
COVID-19 lessons learned: a global perspective	5
Risk factors for colonization by carbapenemase-producing bacteria in Spanish long-term care facilities: a multicentre point-prevalence study	5
Level of implementation of multimodal strategies for infection prevention and control interventions and prevalence of healthcare-associated infections in Northern Italy	5
Pillars for prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections: an Italian expert opinion statement	5
New frontiers in healthcare environmental hygiene: thoughts from the 2022 healthcare cleaning forum	5
Increase in PVC-BSI during the second COVID-19 pandemic year: analysis of catheter and patient characteristics	5
Exploring the perioperative infection control practices & incidence of surgical site infections in rural India	5
“Unite for safety – clean your hands”: the 5 May 2022 World Health Organization SAVE LIVES—Clean Your Hands campaign	5
Clinical factors associated with peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC) related bloodstream infections: a single centre retrospective cohort	5
Mechanical ventilation-associated pneumonia caused by Acinetobacter baumannii in Northeast China region: analysis of genotype and drug resistance of bacteria and patients’ clinical features over 7 yea	5
Development of key quality indicators for appropriate antibiotic use in the Republic of Korea: results of a modified Delphi survey	5
Association between perioperative prophylaxis with cefuroxime plus metronidazole or amoxicillin/clavulanic acid and surgical site infections in paediatric uncomplicated appendectomy: a Swiss retrospec	5
Systematic screening on admission for SARS-CoV-2 to detect asymptomatic infections	5