Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control

Article	Citations
Nosocomial transmission and outbreaks of coronavirus disease 2019: the need to protect both patients and healthcare workers	198
Risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission by aerosols, the rational use of masks, and protection of healthcare workers from COVID-19	165
Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in low- and middle-income countries: a scattered picture	132
Biofilm exacerbates antibiotic resistance: Is this a current oversight in antimicrobial stewardship?	127
Etiology and antimicrobial resistance of secondary bacterial infections in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective analysis	126
Antimicrobial use and resistance in food-producing animals and the environment: an African perspective	106
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in COVID-19 patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis (November 2019–June 2021)	102
The global prevalence of Daptomycin, Tigecycline, Quinupristin/Dalfopristin, and Linezolid-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase–negative staphylococci strains: a systematic review and meta-an	83
Enterococcus faecium: from microbiological insights to practical recommendations for infection control and diagnostics	82
Antimicrobial use in food animals and human health: time to implement ‘One Health’ approach	78
A nosocomial cluster of vancomycin resistant enterococci among COVID-19 patients in an intensive care unit	72
Non-prescription dispensing of antibiotic agents among community drug retail outlets in Sub-Saharan African countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis	71
Antimicrobial resistance in Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile derived from humans: a systematic review and meta-analysis	68
Will healthcare workers improve infection prevention and control behaviors as COVID-19 risk emerges and increases, in China?	68
Knowledge of infection prevention and control among healthcare workers and factors influencing compliance: a systematic review	68
Antimicrobial multidrug resistance in the era of COVID-19: a forgotten plight?	63
The challenge of preventing and containing outbreaks of multidrug-resistant organisms and Candida auris during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: report of a carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter bau	61
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare-associated infections in intensive care unit patients: a retrospective cohort study	60
Antimicrobial resistance preparedness in sub-Saharan African countries	60
Genetic relatedness of multidrug resistant Escherichia coli isolated from humans, chickens and poultry environments	57
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Systematic review and meta-analysis of the epidemiology of vancomycin-resistance Staphylococcus aureus isolates	56
A review of animal health and drug use practices in India, and their possible link to antimicrobial resistance	51
The impact of antimicrobial stewardship program implementation at four tertiary private hospitals: results of a five-years pre-post analysis	50
SARS-Coronavirus-2 cases in healthcare workers may not regularly originate from patient care: lessons from a university hospital on the underestimated risk of healthcare worker to healthcare worker tr	49
Adherence to personal protective equipment use among healthcare workers caring for confirmed COVID-19 and alleged non-COVID-19 patients	42

Barriers to implementing antimicrobial stewardship programs in three low- and middle-income country tertiary care settings: findings from a multi-site qualitative study	39
A national survey of public awareness of antimicrobial resistance in Nigeria	38
Five-year change of prevalence and risk factors for infection and mortality of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infection in a tertiary hospital in North China	37
One Health in hospitals: how understanding the dynamics of people, animals, and the hospital built-environment can be used to better inform interventions for antimicrobial-resistant gram-positive infe	34
Candida tropicalis is the most prevalent yeast species causing candidemia in Algeria: the urgent need for antifungal stewardship and infection control measures	33
Economic burden of antibiotic resistance in China: a national level estimate for inpatients	32
A review of national action plans on antimicrobial resistance: strengths and weaknesses	32
The epidemiology of carbapenem-non-susceptible Acinetobacter species in Europe: analysis of EARS-Net data from 2013 to 2017	32
Azithromycin resistant gonococci: a literature review	32
The first nationwide multicenter study of Acinetobacter baumannii recovered in Serbia: emergence of OXA-72, OXA-23 and NDM-1-producing isolates	32
Ultraviolet disinfection robots to improve hospital cleaning: Real promise or just a gimmick?	30
Knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding antimicrobial use and resistance among communities of Ilala, Kilosa and Kibaha districts of Tanzania	29
Use of medical face masks versus particulate respirators as a component of personal protective equipment for health care workers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	29
Understanding antibiotic use for pig farming in Thailand: a qualitative study	28
Antimicrobial stewardship in rural and remote primary health care: a narrative review	27
Poor infection prevention and control standards are associated with environmental contamination with carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales and other multidrug-resistant bacteria in Swiss companion	27
Central venous catheter-related bloodstream infection and colonization: the impact of insertion site and distribution of multidrug-resistant pathogens	27
The global prevalence of fusidic acid resistance in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus: a systematic review and meta-analysis	26
The rapid and visual detection of methicillin-susceptible and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus using multiplex loop-mediated isothermal amplification linked to a nanoparticle-based lateral	26
CRISPR-Cas system: a potential alternative tool to cope antibiotic resistance	25
Prevalence of pathogenic Klebsiella pneumoniae based on PCR capsular typing harbouring carbapenemases encoding genes in Uganda tertiary hospitals	25
Assessing transparency and accountability of national action plans on antimicrobial resistance in 15 African countries	25
Prevalence and molecular characteristics of ESBL and AmpC β -lactamase producing Enterobacteriaceae strains isolated from UTIs in Egypt	25
Evaluation of the health and healthcare system burden due to antimicrobial-resistant Escherichia coli infections in humans: a systematic review and meta-analysis	25
Impact of environmental hygiene interventions on healthcare-associated infections and patient colonization: a systematic review	25
Point-prevalence survey of hospital acquired infections in three acute care hospitals in Northern Nigeria	24
A one health framework to estimate the cost of antimicrobial resistance	24
Potential methanol toxicity and the importance of using a standardised alcohol-based hand rub formulation in the era of COVID-19	24
Novel chromosomal insertions of ISEcp1-blaCTX-M-15 and diverse antimicrobial resistance genes in Zambian clinical isolates of Enterobacter cloacae and Escherichia coli	24
Contamination of SARS-CoV-2 in patient surroundings and on personal protective equipment in a non-ICU isolation ward for COVID-19 patients with prolonged PCR positive status	24
Bacteremia in critical care units at Bugando Medical Centre, Mwanza, Tanzania: the role of colonization and contaminated cots and mothers’ hands in cross-transmission of multidrug resistant Gram-negat	24
Incidence and risk factors of surgical site infections and related antibiotic resistance in Freetown, Sierra Leone: a prospective cohort study	24
Evaluating infection prevention and control programs in Austrian acute care hospitals using the WHO Infection Prevention and Control Assessment Framework	24
Acquisition of multidrug-resistant Enterobacterales during international travel: a systematic review of clinical and microbiological characteristics and meta-analyses of risk factors	23
Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 infection following rituximab treatment: clinical course and response to therapeutic interventions correlated with quantitative viral cultures and cycle threshold values	23
Genetic diversity and risk factors for the transmission of antimicrobial resistance across human, animals and environmental compartments in East Africa: a review	23
Emergence of β-lactamase- and carbapenemase- producing Enterobacteriaceae at integrated fish farms	23
Epidemiology and risk factors of rectal colonization of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae among high-risk patients from ICU and HSCT wards in a university hospital	23
Comparison of the antimicrobial efficacy of povidone-iodine-alcohol versus chlorhexidine-alcohol for surgical skin preparation on the aerobic and anaerobic skin flora of the shoulder region	23
Infections and antimicrobial resistance in intensive care units in lower-middle income countries: a scoping review	22
A decade of antimicrobial resistance research in social science fields: a scientometric review	22
Prevalence of antimicrobial resistance and its clinical implications in Ethiopia: a systematic review	22
Does the problem begin at the beginning? Medical students’ knowledge and beliefs regarding antibiotics and resistance: a systematic review	22
Impact of an e-learning module on personal protective equipment knowledge in student paramedics: a randomized controlled trial	22
Extensive outbreak of colistin resistant, carbapenemase (blaOXA-48, blaNDM) producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a large tertiary care hospital, India	21
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	21
Molecular epidemiology of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales in Thailand, 2016–2018	21
Development of in vitro resistance to fluoroquinolones in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	21
Scientific evidence supports aerosol transmission of SARS-COV-2	21
Prevalence of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in a Chinese multidrug-resistant TB cohort after redefinition	21

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	21
Infection prevention knowledge, practice, and its associated factors among healthcare providers in primary healthcare unit of Wogdie District, Northeast Ethiopia, 2019: a cross-sectional study	20
Challenges regarding the control of environmental sources of contamination in healthcare settings in low-and middle-income countries - a narrative review	20
Blood bacterial resistant investigation collaborative system (BRICS) report: a national surveillance in China from 2014 to 2019	20
First report of plasmid-mediated colistin resistance mcr-8.1 gene from a clinical Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate from Lebanon	20
Nosocomial infections among COVID-19 patients: an analysis of intensive care unit surveillance data	19
Assessing the impact of the Global Point Prevalence Survey of Antimicrobial Consumption and Resistance (Global-PPS) on hospital antimicrobial stewardship programmes: results of a worldwide survey	19
Point prevalence survey of antimicrobial use in three hospitals in North-Eastern Tanzania	19
Knowledge, attitudes and behaviors on antibiotic use and resistance among healthcare workers in Italy, 2019: investigation by a clustering method	19
Core components of infection prevention and control programs at the facility level in Georgia: key challenges and opportunities	19
Increasing incidence and antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli bloodstream infections: a multinational population-based cohort study	19
Antibiogram and beta-lactamase genes among cefotaxime resistant E. coli from wastewater treatment plant	19
The epidemiology of carbapenem resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii complex in Germany (2014–2018): an analysis of data from the national Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance system	19
What matters: non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 in Europe	19
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia bacteremia in children: risk factors and mortality rate	19
Antibiotic appropriateness and adherence to local guidelines in perioperative prophylaxis: results from an antimicrobial stewardship intervention	19
Characteristics and diversity of mutations in regulatory genes of resistance-nodulation-cell division efflux pumps in association with drug-resistant clinical isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii	19
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing results from 13 hospitals in Viet Nam: VINARES 2016–2017	18
Emergence of nosocomial associated opportunistic pathogens in the gut microbiome after antibiotic treatment	18
The epidemiology of bloodstream infections and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns in Thuringia, Germany: a five-year prospective, state-wide surveillance study (AlertsNet)	18
In vitro evaluation of double carbapenem and colistin combinations against OXA-48, NDM carbapenemase-producing colistin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae strains	18
Increase of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium strain type ST117 CT71 at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 2008 to 2018	18
Effects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on antimicrobial prevalence and prescribing in a tertiary hospital in Singapore	18
Why psychiatry is different - challenges and difficulties in managing a nosocomial outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in hospital care	18
Pathogens distribution and antimicrobial resistance in bloodstream infections in twenty-five neonatal intensive care units in China, 2017–2019	18
Outbreak of Ralstonia mannitolilytica bacteraemia in patients undergoing haemodialysis at a tertiary hospital in Pretoria, South Africa	18
The use of a UV-C disinfection robot in the routine cleaning process: a field study in an Academic hospital	18
Candida tropicalis distribution and drug resistance is correlated with ERG11 and UPC2 expression	18
Does respiratory co-infection facilitate dispersal of SARS-CoV-2? investigation of a super-spreading event in an open-space office	18
The effect of eye protection on SARS-CoV-2 transmission: a systematic review	17
Multidrug-resistant enterobacteriaceae in coastal water: an emerging threat	17
Bloodstream infections caused by ST2 Acinetobacter baumannii: risk factors, antibiotic regimens, and virulence over 6 years period in China	17
A five-component infection control bundle to permanently eliminate a carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii spreading in an intensive care unit	17
Taxonomy, virulence determinants and antimicrobial susceptibility of Aeromonas spp. isolated from bacteremia in southeastern China	17
Intensivists’ beliefs about rapid multiplex molecular diagnostic testing and its potential role in improving prescribing decisions and antimicrobial stewardship: a qualitative study	17
Secular trend analysis of antibiotic utilisation in China’s hospitals 2011–2018, a retrospective analysis of procurement data	16
Real-world use of ceftolozane/tazobactam: a systematic literature review	16
Impact of respirator versus surgical masks on SARS-CoV-2 acquisition in healthcare workers: a prospective multicentre cohort	16
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	16
Epidemiology of ESBL-producing Escherichia coli from repeated prevalence studies over 11 years in a long-term-care facility	16
Systematic screening on admission for SARS-CoV-2 to detect asymptomatic infections	16
Oral colonisation by antimicrobial-resistant Gram-negative bacteria among long-term care facility residents: prevalence, risk factors, and molecular epidemiology	16
The prevalence and mechanism of triclosan resistance in Escherichia coli isolated from urine samples in Wenzhou, China	16
Quaternary ammonium disinfectants and antiseptics: tolerance, resistance and potential impact on antibiotic resistance	16
Implementing a combined infection prevention and control with antimicrobial stewardship joint program to prevent caesarean section surgical site infections and antimicrobial resistance: a Tanzanian te	16
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	16
Risk factors and mortality of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infection in a tertiary-care hospital in China: an eight-year retrospective study	15
Clinical characteristics and risk factors of polymicrobial Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections	15
Systematic review on use, cost and clinical efficacy of automated decontamination devices	15
Global trends of antimicrobial susceptibility to ceftaroline and ceftazidime–avibactam: a surveillance study from the ATLAS program (2012–2016)	15
A population-base survey on knowledge, attitude and awareness of the general public on antibiotic use and resistance	15
Proposal for a EN 149 acceptable reprocessing method for FFP2 respirators in times of severe shortage	15
Faecal microbiota transplantation reduces amounts of antibiotic resistance genes in patients with multidrug-resistant organisms	15
Characterization of florfenicol resistance genes in the coagulase-negative Staphylococcus (CoNS) isolates and genomic features of a multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus lentus strain H29	14
Comparative efficacy of hospital disinfectants against nosocomial infection pathogens	14
Bacterial contamination of neonatal intensive care units: How safe are the neonates?	14
Antimicrobial stewardship in high-risk febrile neutropenia patients	14
Treating infections with ionizing radiation: a historical perspective and emerging techniques	14
Global status of tetracycline resistance among clinical isolates of Vibrio cholerae: a systematic review and meta-analysis	14
Early discontinuation of empirical antibiotic treatment in neutropenic patients with acute myeloid leukaemia and high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome	14
Infection prevention and control in tertiary care hospitals of Bangladesh: results from WHO infection prevention and control assessment framework (IPCAF)	14
Clinical and microbiological characteristics of nosocomial, healthcare-associated, and community-acquired Klebsiella pneumoniae infections in Guangzhou, China	14
Carriage of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria in a high-density informal settlement in Kenya is associated with environmental risk-factors	14
Effect of urine reflex culturing on rates of cultures and infections in acute and long-term care	14
Antimicrobial prophylaxis administration after umbilical cord clamping in cesarean section and the risk of surgical site infection: a cohort study with 55,901 patients	14
First case of Dolutegravir and Darunavir/r multi drug-resistant HIV-1 in Cameroon following exposure to Raltegravir: lessons and implications in the era of transition to Dolutegravir-based regimens	14
Sepsis related mortality of extremely low gestational age newborns after the introduction of colonization screening for multi-drug resistant organisms	14
Assessment of antibiotic resistance changes during the Covid-19 pandemic in northeast of Iran during 2020–2022: an epidemiological study	13
Epidemiology and outcomes of bloodstream infections in severe burn patients: a six-year retrospective study	13
Parental self-medication with antibiotics for children promotes antibiotic over-prescribing in clinical settings in China	13
Implementation of the WHO hand hygiene strategy in Faranah regional hospital, Guinea	13
No increase of device associated infections in German intensive care units during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020	13
Prevalence of fosfomycin resistance and gene mutations in clinical isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus	13
Colonization of a hand washing sink in a veterinary hospital by an Enterobacter hormaechei strain carrying multiple resistances to high importance antimicrobials	13
Molecular analysis of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from four teaching hospitals in Iran: the emergence of novel MRSA clones	13
Predictors of antibiotic prescriptions: a knowledge, attitude and practice survey among physicians in tertiary hospitals in Nigeria	13
Mechanisms affecting the implementation of a national antimicrobial stewardship programme; multi-professional perspectives explained using normalisation process theory	13
Global status of antimicrobial resistance among environmental isolates of Vibrio cholerae O1/O139: a systematic review and meta-analysis	13
Phenotype-genotype correlations among carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales recovered from four Egyptian hospitals with the report of SPM carbapenemase	12
The global prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in residents of elderly care centers: a systematic review and meta-analysis	12

A silent outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a neonatal intensive care unit	12
Blood culture utilization and epidemiology of antimicrobial-resistant bloodstream infections before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Indonesian national referral hospital	12
Clonal spread of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae among patients at admission and discharge at a Vietnamese neonatal intensive care unit	12
Outbreaks of healthcare-associated infections linked to water-containing hospital equipment: a literature review	12
Prescriptions patterns and appropriateness of usage of antibiotics in non-teaching community hospitals in South Korea: a multicentre retrospective study	12
Pillars for prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections: an Italian expert opinion statement	12
Predicting the occurrence of multidrug-resistant organism colonization or infection in ICU patients: development and validation of a novel multivariate prediction model	12
The association of a reduced susceptibility to moxifloxacin in causative Clostridium (Clostridioides) difficile strain with the clinical outcome of patients	12
Characterisation of mobile colistin resistance genes (mcr-3 and mcr-5) in river and storm water in regions of the Western Cape of South Africa	12
Exploring the economic impact of inappropriate antibiotic use: the case of upper respiratory tract infections in Ghana	12
Risk factors for nosocomial rectal colonization with carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in hospital: a matched case–control study	11
Infection prevention and control (IPC) implementation in low-resource settings: a qualitative analysis	11
Burden of five healthcare associated infections in Australia	11
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	11
Reducing the risk of tuberculosis transmission for HCWs in high incidence settings	11
Hand hygiene improvement or antibiotic restriction to control the household transmission of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli: a mathematical modelling study	11
Impact of a total lockdown for pandemic SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) on deep surgical site infections and other complications after orthopedic surgery: a retrospective analysis	11
Fluoroquinolone resistance of Staphylococcus epidermidis isolated from healthy conjunctiva and analysis of their mutations in quinolone-resistance determining region	11
Infection prevention and control research priorities: what do we need to combat healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance? Results of a narrative literature review and survey analy	11
Hand hygiene compliance and its drivers in long-term care facilities; observations and a survey	11
Tanzanian primary healthcare workers’ experiences of antibiotic prescription and understanding of antibiotic resistance in common childhood infections: a qualitative phenomenographic study	11
The carbapenem resistance gene blaOXA-23 is disseminated by a conjugative plasmid containing the novel transposon Tn6681 in Acinetobacter johnsonii M19	11
Impact of a multifaceted intervention to improve antibiotic prescribing: a pragmatic cluster-randomised controlled trial	11
Gut microbiome signatures of nursing home residents carrying Enterobacteria producing extended-spectrum β-lactamases	11
A rapid model for developing dry surface biofilms of Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa for in vitro disinfectant efficacy testing	11
Establishment and validation of a nomogram to predict the in-hospital death risk of nosocomial infections in cancer patients	11
A narrative review on current duodenoscope reprocessing techniques and novel developments	11
A seven-year surveillance study of the epidemiology, antifungal susceptibility, risk factors and mortality of candidaemia among paediatric and adult inpatients in a tertiary teaching hospital in China	11
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	11
Emerging coexistence of three PMQR genes on a multiple resistance plasmid with a new surrounding genetic structure of qnrS2 in E. coli in China	11
Recommendations for the surveillance of multidrug-resistant bacteria in Italian long-term care facilities by the GLISTer working group of the Italian Association of Clinical Microbiologists (AMCLI)	11
Successful control of the first carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae outbreak in a Chinese hospital 2017–2019	11
ATP measurement as an objective method to measure environmental contamination in 9 hospitals in the Dutch/Belgian border area	11
Silica nanoparticles with encapsulated DNA (SPED) – a novel surrogate tracer for microbial transmission in healthcare	11
A cross-sectional study of antimicrobial use among self-medicating COVID-19 cases in Nyeri County, Kenya	10
The prevalence and molecular mechanisms of mupirocin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus isolates from a Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa	10
Knowledge and perception on antimicrobial resistance and antibiotics prescribing attitude among physicians and nurses in Lambaréné region, Gabon: a call for setting-up an antimicrobial stewardship pro	10
A mixed-methods sequential explanatory design comparison between COVID-19 infection control guidelines’ applicability and their protective value as perceived by Israeli healthcare workers, and healthc	10
Dimensions of poverty as risk factors for antimicrobial resistant organisms in Canada: a structured narrative review	10
The great nursing brain drain and its effects on patient safety	10
Education and training programmes for infection prevention and control professionals: mapping the current opportunities and local needs in European countries	10
β-lactamase-mediated resistance in MDR-Pseudomonas aeruginosa from Qatar	10
The 2017 global point prevalence survey of antimicrobial consumption and resistance in Canadian hospitals	10
Antimicrobial resistance and one health in the post COVID-19 era: What should health students learn?	10
Prevalence of self-medication with antibiotics and its related factors among Chinese residents: a cross-sectional study	10
Sepsis: emerging pathogens and antimicrobial resistance in Ethiopian referral hospitals	10
Management of a hospital-wide vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium outbreak in a Dutch general hospital, 2014–2017: successful control using a restrictive screening strategy	10
Admission screening and cohort care decrease carbapenem resistant enterobacteriaceae in Vietnamese pediatric ICU’s	10
Gonococcal resistance can be viewed productively as part of a syndemic of antimicrobial resistance: an ecological analysis of 30 European countries	10
Correction to: Use of medical face masks versus particulate respirators as a component of personal protective equipment for health care workers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Critical Reliability Issues of Common Type Alcohol-Based Handrub Dispensers	10
Approaches to multidrug-resistant organism prevention and control in long-term care facilities for older people: a systematic review and meta-analysis	10
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	10
Assessment of knowledge and implementation practices of the ventilator acquired pneumonia (VAP) bundle in the intensive care unit of a private hospital	10
A multimodal intervention to improve hand hygiene compliance in peripheral wards of a tertiary care university centre: a cluster randomised controlled trial	9
Estimating length of stay and inpatient charges attributable to hospital-acquired bloodstream infections	9
Cutibacterium avidum resists surgical skin antisepsis in the groin—a potential risk factor for periprosthetic joint infection: a quality control study	9
The COVID-19 pandemic and N95 masks: reusability and decontamination methods	9
Genomic analysis of Staphylococcus aureus from the West African Dwarf (WAD) goat in Nigeria	9
Different screening frequencies of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: which one is better?	9
Identifying and addressing challenges to antimicrobial use surveillance in the human health sector in low- and middle-income countries: experiences and lessons learned from Tanzania and Uganda	9
Hand hygiene in surgery in Benin: opportunities and challenges	9
Duration of central venous catheter placement and central line-associated bloodstream infections after the adoption of prevention bundles: a two-year retrospective study	9
Prevention of central line-associated bloodstream infections: a survey of ICU nurses’ knowledge and practice in China	9
Prevalence and antimicrobial resistance patterns of bacteria isolated from cerebrospinal fluid among children with bacterial meningitis in China from 2016 to 2018: a multicenter retrospective study	9
Temporo-spatial variations in resistance determinants and clonality of Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains from Romanian hospitals and wastewaters	9
Antibiotic prescribing in inpatient and outpatient settings in Iran: a systematic review and meta-analysis study	9
Carriage of ESBL-producing Gram-negative bacteria by flies captured in a hospital and its suburban surroundings in Ethiopia	9
Lower risk of bloodstream infections for peripherally inserted central catheters compared to central venous catheters in critically ill patients	9
Antibiotic use by poultry farmers in Kiambu County, Kenya: exploring practices and drivers of potential overuse	9
Prevalence and abundance of selected genes conferring macrolide resistance genes in COPD patients during maintenance treatment with azithromycin	9
COVID-19: through the eyes through the front line, an international perspective	9
Antibiotic-resistance in medically important bacteria isolated from commercial herbal medicines in Africa from 2000 to 2021: a systematic review and meta-analysis	9
Inappropriate use of antibiotics and its predictors in pediatric patients admitted at the Central Hospital of Nampula, Mozambique	9
Environmental surveillance of ESBL and carbapenemase-producing gram-negative bacteria in a Ghanaian Tertiary Hospital	9
Prevention of severe infectious complications after colorectal surgery using oral non-absorbable antimicrobial prophylaxis: results of a multicenter randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial	9
Epidemiology of carbapenem-resistant and carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales in the Netherlands 2017–2019	9
Sustained effects of a multimodal campaign aiming at hand hygiene improvement on compliance and healthcare-associated infections in a large gynaecology/obstetrics tertiary-care centre in Vietnam	9
Education level and misuse of antibiotics in the general population: a systematic review and dose–response meta-analysis	9
Prevalence and characterization of antimicrobial resistance among gram-negative bacteria isolated from febrile hospitalized patients in central Ethiopia	9
Virus matrix interference on assessment of virucidal activity of high-touch surfaces designed to prevent hospital-acquired infections	9
Characterizing the bioburden of ESBL-producing organisms in a neonatal unit using chromogenic culture media: a feasible and efficient environmental sampling method	9
Outbreak investigation of Serratia marcescens neurosurgical site infections associated with a contaminated shaving razors	9
Epidemiological profile of patients with rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis: an analysis of the Uganda National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory Surveillance Data, 2014–2018	9
Finding the match between healthcare worker and expert for optimal audit and feedback on antimicrobial resistance prevention measures	9
Containing Carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in an endemic setting	9
Nosocomial cluster of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacter cloacae in an intensive care unit dedicated COVID-19	8
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	8
High rate of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing gram-negative infections and associated mortality in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Investigation and control of an outbreak of urinary tract infections caused by Burkholderia cepacian-contaminated anesthetic gel	8
Vaginal colonization with antimicrobial-resistant bacteria among women in labor in central Uganda: prevalence and associated factors	8
Efficacy of mupirocin, neomycin and octenidine for nasal Staphylococcus aureus decolonisation: a retrospective cohort study	8
Compliance with hand disinfection in the surgical area of an orthopedic university clinic: results of an observational study	8
Enhancing engagement beyond the conference walls: analysis of Twitter use at #ICPIC2019 infection prevention and control conference	8
Screening for triazole resistance in clinically significant Aspergillus species; report from Pakistan	8