Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control

Article	Citations
Clinical risk factors for admission with Pseudomonas and multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas community-acquired pneumonia	145
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	126
Documentation of adherence to infection prevention best practice in patient records: a mixed-methods investigation	96
Correction: Impact of tooth brushing on oral bacteriota and health care-associated infections among ventilated COVID-19 patients: an intervention study	92
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales infection and colonization in patients with severe burns: a retrospective cohort study in a single burn center	80
Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 infection following rituximab treatment: clinical course and response to therapeutic interventions correlated with quantitative viral cultures and cycle threshold values	77
Development and validation of machine learning models to predict MDRO colonization or infection on ICU admission by using electronic health record data	72
Dissemination of clinical Escherichia coli strains harboring mcr-1, blaNDM−7 and siderophore-producing plasmids in a Chinese hospital	58
Compliance with infection prevention and control standard precautions and factors associated with noncompliance among healthcare workers working in public hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	56
Antibiotic use by poultry farmers in Kiambu County, Kenya: exploring practices and drivers of potential overuse	43
Fecal carriage of ESBL-producing E. coli and genetic characterization in rural children and livestock in the Somali region, Ethiopia: a one health approach	43
Development of a strain-specific PCR as a diagnostic tool for surveillance, detection, and monitoring of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium during outbreak	41
Antimicrobial use of patients with sexually transmitted infection symptoms prior to presentation at five health facilities in Southern Ghana	41
Vancomycin resistant enterococcus risk factors for hospital colonization in hematological patients: a matched case-control study	40
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	39
On-site evaluation as external quality assessment of microbiology laboratories involved in sentinel laboratory-based antimicrobial resistance surveillance network in Burkina Faso	37
Usefulness of dynamic regression time series models for studying the relationship between antimicrobial consumption and bacterial antimicrobial resistance in hospitals: a systematic review	36
Sequence type 17 is a predictor of subsequent bacteremia in vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium-colonized patients: a retrospective cohort study	35
Correction: Burden of five healthcare associated infections in Australia	35
Animal source food eating habits of outpatients with antimicrobial resistance in Bukavu, D.R. Congo	35
SARS-CoV-2 risk in household contacts of healthcare workers: a prospective cohort study	32
Efficacy and safety of preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infection by inhibiting catheter bacterial biofilm formation: a multicenter randomized controlled trial	32
Antimicrobial resistance control in the emergency department: a need for concrete improvement	31
Implementing a healthcare-associated bloodstream infection surveillance network in India: a mixed-methods study on the best practices, challenges and opportunities, 2022	31
An evaluation of a Stenotrophomonas maltophilia outbreak due to commercial arterial blood gas collection kit	31

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	30
Guidance of empirical antimicrobial therapy by surveillance cultures in high-risk neutropenic patients: a retrospective cohort study	30
Investigation of possible transmission of a susceptible microorganism through a contaminated duodenoscope; a case report	30
Molecular epidemiology, microbiological features and infection control strategies for carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a German burn and plastic surgery center (2020–2022)	30
Exploring drivers of self-treatment with antibiotics in three agricultural communities of northern Tanzania	29
Exploring the economic impact of inappropriate antibiotic use: the case of upper respiratory tract infections in Ghana	29
Antimicrobial stewardship in high-risk febrile neutropenia patients	29
Pillars for prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections: an Italian expert opinion statement	29
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	29
Prevalence of vancomycin-resistant Enterococci in India between 2000 and 2022: a systematic review and meta-analysis	28
Tolerance of biofilm of a carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae involved in a duodenoscopy-associated outbreak to the disinfectant used in reprocessing	28
Description of a nationwide structure for monitoring nosocomial outbreaks of (highly resistant) microorganisms in the Netherlands: characteristics of outbreaks in 2012–2021	27
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	27
Automated surveillance for surgical site infections (SSI) in hospitals and surveillance networks–expert perspectives for implementation	26
Prophylactic antimicrobials may not be needed to prevent surgical site infection after skin biopsy: a retrospective study	26
“What if the patient has a severe reaction, and it is my fault?” A qualitative study exploring factors for sustainable implementation of penicillin allergy delabelling	26
Antibiotic utilisation and resistance over the first decade of nationally funded antimicrobial stewardship programmes in Singapore acute-care hospitals	26
Pandemic clone USA300 in a Brazilian hospital: detection of an emergent lineage among methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from bloodstream infections	26
Antiseptics and mupirocin resistance in clinical, environmental, and colonizing coagulase negative Staphylococcus isolates	25
Factors associated with hand washing effectiveness: an institution-based observational study	25
Extensive outbreak of colistin resistant, carbapenemase (blaOXA-48, blaNDM) producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a large tertiary care hospital, India	25
Establishing carbapenem resistant organism surveillance, prevention, and control in a middle-income country: implementation of a hospital-based program in Fiji	25
Healthcare workers’ knowledge, attitude and practices on infection prevention and control in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic at the Faranah regional hospital and associated healthcare centers, Gu	25
The rapid detection of a neonatal unit outbreak of a wild-type Klebsiella variicola using decentralized Oxford Nanopore sequencing	25
Prescriptions patterns and appropriateness of usage of antibiotics in non-teaching community hospitals in South Korea: a multicentre retrospective study	24
Introduction and spread of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) at a German tertiary care medical center from 2004 until 2010: a retrospective whole-genome sequencing (WGS) study of the m	24
Evaluation of GeneXpert PA assay compared to genomic and (semi-)quantitative culture methods for direct detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in endotracheal aspirates	23
Detecting inappropriate total duration of antimicrobial therapy using semi-automated surveillance	23
Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on antibiotic use in Canadian primary care: a matched-cohort study using EMR data	23
External validation of the ICU-CARB score to predict carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacteria carriage in critically ill patients upon ICU admission: a multicenter analysis	23
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	22
Efficacy of an antimicrobial stewardship intervention for early adaptation of antibiotic therapy in high-risk neutropenic patients	22
Geographical information system and spatial–temporal statistics for monitoring infectious agents in hospital: a model using Klebsiella pneumoniae complex	21
Best practice guidance for antibiotic audit and feedback interventions in primary care: a modified Delphi study from the Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial resistance: Primary Care Antibiot	21
Global status of antimicrobial resistance among environmental isolates of Vibrio cholerae O1/O139: a systematic review and meta-analysis	21
Hospital cleaning: past, present, and future	21
Hospital sanitary facilities on wards with high antibiotic exposure play an important role in maintaining a reservoir of resistant pathogens, even over many years	21
Point prevalence study of antibiotic appropriateness and possibility of early discharge from hospital among patients treated with antibiotics in a Swiss University Hospital	20
Silica nanoparticles with encapsulated DNA (SPED) to trace the spread of pathogens in healthcare	20
COVID-19 patient and personal safety – lessons learnt for pandemic preparedness and the way to the next normal	20
Development of a web-based contact tracing and point-of-care-testing workflow for SARS-CoV-2 at a German University Hospital	20
External validation of semi-automated surveillance algorithms for deep surgical site infections after colorectal surgery in an independent country	20
The effect of a hand hygiene intervention on infections in residents of nursing homes: a cluster randomized controlled trial	20
Predictors of early and interim culture un-conversion in multidrug-resistant/rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis: a retrospective multi-center cohort study in China	19
Success and failures in MRSA infection control during the COVID-19 pandemic	19
Patterns and outcomes of health-care associated infections in the medical wards at Bugando medical centre: a longitudinal cohort study	19
Healthcare‑associated infections in intensive care unit patients with and without COVID-19: a single center prospective surveillance study	18
Surgical site infection and antimicrobial use following caesarean section at QECH in Blantyre, Malawi: a prospective cohort study	18
Effect of povidone-iodine and propanol-based mecetronium ethyl sulphate on antimicrobial resistance and virulence in Staphylococcus aureus	18
Clean Hospitals Day 2024: the technical domains of healthcare environmental hygiene	18

A multi-institutional exploration of emergency medicine physicians’ attitudes and behaviours on antibiotic use during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods study	18
Approaches to multidrug-resistant organism prevention and control in long-term care facilities for older people: a systematic review and meta-analysis	18
Environmental contamination across multiple hospital departments with multidrug-resistant bacteria pose an elevated risk of healthcare-associated infections in Kenyan hospitals	18
Drug-resistance characteristics, genetic diversity, and transmission dynamics of multidrug-resistant or rifampicin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis from 2019 to 2021 in Sichuan, China	18
Duration of central venous catheter placement and central line-associated bloodstream infections after the adoption of prevention bundles: a two-year retrospective study	17
Antibiotic-resistance in medically important bacteria isolated from commercial herbal medicines in Africa from 2000 to 2021: a systematic review and meta-analysis	17
Comparison of disease and economic burden between MRSA infection and MRSA colonization in a university hospital: a retrospective data integration study	17
A pre-pandemic COVID-19 assessment of the costs of prevention and control interventions for healthcare associated infections in medical and surgical wards in Québec	17
Rinse, gel, and foam – is there any evidence for a difference in their effectiveness in preventing infections?	17
Baseline evaluation of the World Health Organization (WHO) infection prevention and control (IPC) core components in Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs)	17
The prevalence of vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis	16
A hospital-wide outbreak of IMI-17-producing Enterobacter ludwigii in an Israeli hospital	16
Economic impact of a care bundle to prevent surgical site infection after craniotomy: a cost-analysis study	16
Effectiveness of topical vancomycin in the prevention of spinal surgical site infections: a retrospective cohort study	16
A nationwide survey on the implementation of infection prevention and control components in 1442 hospitals in the Republic of Korea: comparison to the WHO Infection Prevention and Control Assessment F	16
Prevalence of self-medication with antibiotics and its related factors among Chinese residents: a cross-sectional study	16
Perceptions and attitudes about antibiotic resistance in the general public and general practitioners in France	16
Infection prevention strategies are highly protective in COVID-19 units while main risks to healthcare professionals come from coworkers and the community	15
Infection prevention and control in Indonesian hospitals: identification of strengths, gaps, and challenges	15
Surveillance of close contacts of patients with infectious tuberculosis: a prospective cohort study	15
Hand hygiene improvement of individual healthcare workers: results of the multicentre PROHIBIT study	15
Identifying excessive length of antibiotic treatment duration for hospital-acquired infections: a semi-automated approach to support antimicrobial stewardship	15
Surgical site infection surveillance in German hospitals: a national survey to determine the status quo of digitalization	15
Correction: Development and application of a risk nomogram for the prediction of risk of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections in neuro-intensive care unit: a mixed method study	15
Antibiotic consumption in hospitals in humanitarian settings in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia and South Sudan	15
Electronic monitoring of doffing using video surveillance to minimise error rate and increase safety at Howard Springs International Quarantine Facility	15
Outbreak with OXA-23-producing Acinetobacter baumannii in a COVID-19 ICU cohort: unraveling routes of transmission	15
Use of broad-spectrum antimicrobials for more than 72 h and the detection of multidrug-resistant bacteria in Japanese intensive care units: a multicenter retrospective cohort study	15
Updates and future directions regarding hand hygiene in the healthcare setting: insights from the 3rd ICPIC alcohol-based handrub (ABHR) task force	14
Wastewater-based surveillance in Italy leading to the first detection of mcr-10-positive Klebsiella quasipneumoniae	14
The ICU-CARB score: a novel clinical scoring system to predict carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacteria carriage in critically ill patients upon ICU admission	14
Magnitude and determinants of inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics in dentistry: a nation-wide study	14
Prevalence and predictors of self-medication with antibiotics in selected urban and rural districts of the Dodoma region, Central Tanzania: a cross-sectional study	14
An outbreak of blaKPC−4- and blaVIM−1-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae and Klebsiella variicola at a single hospital in South Korea	14
Association of institutional masking policies with healthcare-associated SARS-CoV-2 infections in Swiss acute care hospitals during the BA.4/5 wave (CH-SUR study): a retrospective observational study	14
The need to improve antimicrobial susceptibility testing capacity in Ugandan health facilities: insights from a surveillance primer	13
Effect of temperature on Escherichia coli bloodstream infection in a nationwide population-based study of incidence and resistance	13
Appropriate number of observations for determining hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers	13
A multicentric survey and single-centre observational study of usage behaviour of sinks in intensive care: training is needed to minimize risk	13
Extended spectrum and metalo beta lactamase producing gram negative bacterial pathogens from cockroaches collected at hospital, Southern Ethiopia	13
Healthcare institutions’ recommendation regarding the use of FFP-2 masks and SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity among healthcare workers: a multicenter longitudinal cohort study	13
The combined application of hand hygiene and non-sterile gloves by nurses in a tertiary hospital: a multi methods study	13
Are emojis ready to promote the WHO 5 moments for hand hygiene in healthcare?	13
Acceptability of an alcohol-based handrub gel with superfatting agents among healthcare workers: a randomized crossover controlled study	13
Antibiotic consumption in long-term care facilities in Poland and other European countries in 2017	13
On the onset and dispersal of a major MDR TB clone among HIV-negative patients, Tunisia	12
Integrated assessment of antimicrobial stewardship in carbapenem resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae prevalent hospitals in China: a multidisciplinary surveillance network-based survey	12
Temporal trends in antimicrobial resistance of medically important pathogens on Curaçao	12
Combined antibiotic stewardship and infection control measures to contain the spread of linezolid-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis in an intensive care unit	12
Knowledge, attitude and practice of infection prevention and control precautions among laboratory staff: a mixed-methods systematic review	12
Knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of Egyptians towards antibiotic use in the community: can we do better?	12
Cross-site collaboration on infection prevention and control research—room for improvement? A 7-year comparative study in five European countries	12
Epidemiology of extended-spectrum β-lactamase–producing Enterobacterales infection in kidney transplant recipients	12
Evaluation of the feasibility, appropriateness, and acceptability of an environmental cleaning program improvement toolkit at a tertiary care hospital in Nigeria	12
A qualitative study of barriers to antimicrobial stewardship in Indonesian hospitals: governance, competing interests, cost, and structural vulnerability	12
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	12
Obesity and the risk of catheter-related bloodstream infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis	12
What fuels suboptimal care of peripheral intravenous catheter-related infections in hospitals? A qualitative study of decision-making among Spanish nurses	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
Microbiological trends and mortality risk factors of central line-associated bloodstream infections in an academic medical center 2015–2020	11
Investigating the implementation of infection prevention and control practices in neonatal care across country income levels: a systematic review	11
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	11
Knowledge and attitude of healthcare prescribers and pharmacists toward antimicrobial stewardship program and the barriers for its implementation	11
Antimicrobial prescribing in French nursing homes and interventions for antimicrobial stewardship: a qualitative study	11
Improving hand hygiene practices in two regional hospitals in Kenya using a continuous quality improvement (CQI) approach	11
A cross-sectional study of antimicrobial use among self-medicating COVID-19 cases in Nyeri County, Kenya	11
Increasing incidence and antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli bloodstream infections: a multinational population-based cohort study	11
Patterns of multidrug resistant organism acquisition in an adult specialist burns service: a retrospective review	11
A practice guide on antimicrobial stewardship in nursing homes	11
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	11
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	10
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on extended-spectrum β-lactamase producing Escherichia coli in urinary tract and blood stream infections: results from a nationwide surveillance network, Finland, 2018	10
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	10
State of infection prevention and control in Austrian hospitals: data from 81 hospitals completing the WHO Infection Prevention and Control Assessment Framework (IPCAF)	10
Clinical factors associated with peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC) related bloodstream infections: a single centre retrospective cohort	10
SARS-CoV-2 aerosol generation during respiratory equipment reprocessing	10
Correction: Review and analysis of the overlapping threats of carbapenem and polymyxin resistant E. Coli and Klebsiella in Africa	10
Level of implementation of multimodal strategies for infection prevention and control interventions and prevalence of healthcare-associated infections in Northern Italy	10
Implementation of the WHO core components of an infection prevention and control programme in two sub-saharan African acute health-care facilities: a mixed methods study	10
Assessment of knowledge and implementation practices of the ventilator acquired pneumonia (VAP) bundle in the intensive care unit of a private hospital	10

Increase in PVC-BSI during the second COVID-19 pandemic year: analysis of catheter and patient characteristics	10
Microbiologically confirmed infections and antibiotic-resistance in a national surveillance study of hospitalised patients who died with COVID-19, Italy 2020–2021	10
Active surveillance of carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacteria to guide antibiotic therapy: a single-center prospective observational study	10
Exploring the perioperative infection control practices & incidence of surgical site infections in rural India	10