Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control

Article	Citations
Nosocomial transmission and outbreaks of coronavirus disease 2019: the need to protect both patients and healthcare workers	199
Risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission by aerosols, the rational use of masks, and protection of healthcare workers from COVID-19	166
Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in low- and middle-income countries: a scattered picture	135
Biofilm exacerbates antibiotic resistance: Is this a current oversight in antimicrobial stewardship?	129
Etiology and antimicrobial resistance of secondary bacterial infections in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective analysis	127
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in COVID-19 patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis (November 2019–June 2021)	103
Enterococcus faecium: from microbiological insights to practical recommendations for infection control and diagnostics	87
The global prevalence of Daptomycin, Tigecycline, Quinupristin/Dalfopristin, and Linezolid-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase–negative staphylococci strains: a systematic review and meta-an	84
Antimicrobial use in food animals and human health: time to implement ‘One Health’ approach	81
Non-prescription dispensing of antibiotic agents among community drug retail outlets in Sub-Saharan African countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis	73
A nosocomial cluster of vancomycin resistant enterococci among COVID-19 patients in an intensive care unit	72
Knowledge of infection prevention and control among healthcare workers and factors influencing compliance: a systematic review	69
Antimicrobial resistance in Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile derived from humans: a systematic review and meta-analysis	69
Will healthcare workers improve infection prevention and control behaviors as COVID-19 risk emerges and increases, in China?	69
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	64
Antimicrobial multidrug resistance in the era of COVID-19: a forgotten plight?	63
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare-associated infections in intensive care unit patients: a retrospective cohort study	61
Antimicrobial resistance preparedness in sub-Saharan African countries	61
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Systematic review and meta-analysis of the epidemiology of vancomycin-resistance Staphylococcus aureus isolates	60
Genetic relatedness of multidrug resistant Escherichia coli isolated from humans, chickens and poultry environments	60
The impact of antimicrobial stewardship program implementation at four tertiary private hospitals: results of a five-years pre-post analysis	52
A review of animal health and drug use practices in India, and their possible link to antimicrobial resistance	51
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	50
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	40

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	39
A national survey of public awareness of antimicrobial resistance in Nigeria	39
Candida tropicalis is the most prevalent yeast species causing candidemia in Algeria: the urgent need for antifungal stewardship and infection control measures	34
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
Economic burden of antibiotic resistance in China: a national level estimate for inpatients	33
Ultraviolet disinfection robots to improve hospital cleaning: Real promise or just a gimmick?	33
A review of national action plans on antimicrobial resistance: strengths and weaknesses	33
The epidemiology of carbapenem-non-susceptible Acinetobacter species in Europe: analysis of EARS-Net data from 2013 to 2017	32
The first nationwide multicenter study of Acinetobacter baumannii recovered in Serbia: emergence of OXA-72, OXA-23 and NDM-1-producing isolates	32
Azithromycin resistant gonococci: a literature review	32
Knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding antimicrobial use and resistance among communities of Ilala, Kilosa and Kibaha districts of Tanzania	31
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	30
Understanding antibiotic use for pig farming in Thailand: a qualitative study	30
Central venous catheter-related bloodstream infection and colonization: the impact of insertion site and distribution of multidrug-resistant pathogens	29
Antimicrobial stewardship in rural and remote primary health care: a narrative review	28
Poor infection prevention and control standards are associated with environmental contamination with carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales and other multidrug-resistant bacteria in Swiss companion	28
The global prevalence of fusidic acid resistance in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus: a systematic review and meta-analysis	27
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	27
CRISPR-Cas system: a potential alternative tool to cope antibiotic resistance	27
Evaluation of the health and healthcare system burden due to antimicrobial-resistant Escherichia coli infections in humans: a systematic review and meta-analysis	26
Prevalence of pathogenic Klebsiella pneumoniae based on PCR capsular typing harbouring carbapenemases encoding genes in Uganda tertiary hospitals	26
Assessing transparency and accountability of national action plans on antimicrobial resistance in 15 African countries	26
Impact of environmental hygiene interventions on healthcare-associated infections and patient colonization: a systematic review	26
Incidence and risk factors of surgical site infections and related antibiotic resistance in Freetown, Sierra Leone: a prospective cohort study	25
Prevalence and molecular characteristics of ESBL and AmpC β -lactamase producing Enterobacteriaceae strains isolated from UTIs in Egypt	25
A one health framework to estimate the cost of antimicrobial resistance	25
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	25
Emergence of β-lactamase- and carbapenemase- producing Enterobacteriaceae at integrated fish farms	25
Evaluating infection prevention and control programs in Austrian acute care hospitals using the WHO Infection Prevention and Control Assessment Framework	25
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
Infections and antimicrobial resistance in intensive care units in lower-middle income countries: a scoping review	24
Point-prevalence survey of hospital acquired infections in three acute care hospitals in Northern Nigeria	24
Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 infection following rituximab treatment: clinical course and response to therapeutic interventions correlated with quantitative viral cultures and cycle threshold values	24
Genetic diversity and risk factors for the transmission of antimicrobial resistance across human, animals and environmental compartments in East Africa: a review	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
Potential methanol toxicity and the importance of using a standardised alcohol-based hand rub formulation in the era of COVID-19	24
Acquisition of multidrug-resistant Enterobacterales during international travel: a systematic review of clinical and microbiological characteristics and meta-analyses of risk factors	23
Does the problem begin at the beginning? Medical students’ knowledge and beliefs regarding antibiotics and resistance: a systematic review	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
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
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
Molecular epidemiology of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales in Thailand, 2016–2018	22
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	22
Challenges regarding the control of environmental sources of contamination in healthcare settings in low-and middle-income countries - a narrative review	22
Extensive outbreak of colistin resistant, carbapenemase (blaOXA-48, blaNDM) producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a large tertiary care hospital, India	22
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	22
Impact of an e-learning module on personal protective equipment knowledge in student paramedics: a randomized controlled trial	22
Development of in vitro resistance to fluoroquinolones in Pseudomonas aeruginosa	22
Candida tropicalis distribution and drug resistance is correlated with ERG11 and UPC2 expression	21

Increasing incidence and antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli bloodstream infections: a multinational population-based cohort study	21
Prevalence of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in a Chinese multidrug-resistant TB cohort after redefinition	21
Scientific evidence supports aerosol transmission of SARS-COV-2	21
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	20
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia bacteremia in children: risk factors and mortality rate	20
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
First report of plasmid-mediated colistin resistance mcr-8.1 gene from a clinical Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate from Lebanon	20
Blood bacterial resistant investigation collaborative system (BRICS) report: a national surveillance in China from 2014 to 2019	20
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
Quaternary ammonium disinfectants and antiseptics: tolerance, resistance and potential impact on antibiotic resistance	19
Knowledge, attitudes and behaviors on antibiotic use and resistance among healthcare workers in Italy, 2019: investigation by a clustering method	19
The use of a UV-C disinfection robot in the routine cleaning process: a field study in an Academic hospital	19
Core components of infection prevention and control programs at the facility level in Georgia: key challenges and opportunities	19
Point prevalence survey of antimicrobial use in three hospitals in North-Eastern Tanzania	19
What matters: non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 in Europe	19
Nosocomial infections among COVID-19 patients: an analysis of intensive care unit surveillance data	19
Outbreak of Ralstonia mannitolilytica bacteraemia in patients undergoing haemodialysis at a tertiary hospital in Pretoria, South Africa	19
Antibiotic appropriateness and adherence to local guidelines in perioperative prophylaxis: results from an antimicrobial stewardship intervention	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
Bloodstream infections caused by ST2 Acinetobacter baumannii: risk factors, antibiotic regimens, and virulence over 6 years period in China	18
Effects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on antimicrobial prevalence and prescribing in a tertiary hospital in Singapore	18
Pathogens distribution and antimicrobial resistance in bloodstream infections in twenty-five neonatal intensive care units in China, 2017–2019	18
Intensivists’ beliefs about rapid multiplex molecular diagnostic testing and its potential role in improving prescribing decisions and antimicrobial stewardship: a qualitative study	18
Increase of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium strain type ST117 CT71 at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 2008 to 2018	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
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing results from 13 hospitals in Viet Nam: VINARES 2016–2017	18
Why psychiatry is different - challenges and difficulties in managing a nosocomial outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in hospital care	18
Does respiratory co-infection facilitate dispersal of SARS-CoV-2? investigation of a super-spreading event in an open-space office	18
Global trends of antimicrobial susceptibility to ceftaroline and ceftazidime–avibactam: a surveillance study from the ATLAS program (2012–2016)	17
Impact of respirator versus surgical masks on SARS-CoV-2 acquisition in healthcare workers: a prospective multicentre cohort	17
Taxonomy, virulence determinants and antimicrobial susceptibility of Aeromonas spp. isolated from bacteremia in southeastern China	17
A five-component infection control bundle to permanently eliminate a carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii spreading in an intensive care unit	17
Risk factors and mortality of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infection in a tertiary-care hospital in China: an eight-year retrospective study	17
The effect of eye protection on SARS-CoV-2 transmission: a systematic review	17
Multidrug-resistant enterobacteriaceae in coastal water: an emerging threat	17
Effect of urine reflex culturing on rates of cultures and infections in acute and long-term care	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
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
The prevalence and mechanism of triclosan resistance in Escherichia coli isolated from urine samples in Wenzhou, China	16
Epidemiology of ESBL-producing Escherichia coli from repeated prevalence studies over 11 years in a long-term-care facility	16
Antimicrobial stewardship in high-risk febrile neutropenia patients	16
A population-base survey on knowledge, attitude and awareness of the general public on antibiotic use and resistance	16
Faecal microbiota transplantation reduces amounts of antibiotic resistance genes in patients with multidrug-resistant organisms	16
Real-world use of ceftolozane/tazobactam: a systematic literature review	16
Systematic screening on admission for SARS-CoV-2 to detect asymptomatic infections	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
Secular trend analysis of antibiotic utilisation in China’s hospitals 2011–2018, a retrospective analysis of procurement data	16
Characterization of florfenicol resistance genes in the coagulase-negative Staphylococcus (CoNS) isolates and genomic features of a multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus lentus strain H29	15
Proposal for a EN 149 acceptable reprocessing method for FFP2 respirators in times of severe shortage	15
Systematic review on use, cost and clinical efficacy of automated decontamination devices	15
Global status of tetracycline resistance among clinical isolates of Vibrio cholerae: a systematic review and meta-analysis	15
Clinical characteristics and risk factors of polymicrobial Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections	15
Epidemiology and outcomes of bloodstream infections in severe burn patients: a six-year retrospective study	15
Bacterial contamination of neonatal intensive care units: How safe are the neonates?	15
Clinical and microbiological characteristics of nosocomial, healthcare-associated, and community-acquired Klebsiella pneumoniae infections in Guangzhou, China	15
Treating infections with ionizing radiation: a historical perspective and emerging techniques	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
Early discontinuation of empirical antibiotic treatment in neutropenic patients with acute myeloid leukaemia and high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome	14
Assessment of antibiotic resistance changes during the Covid-19 pandemic in northeast of Iran during 2020–2022: an epidemiological study	14
Predictors of antibiotic prescriptions: a knowledge, attitude and practice survey among physicians in tertiary hospitals in Nigeria	14
Comparative efficacy of hospital disinfectants against nosocomial infection pathogens	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
Carriage of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria in a high-density informal settlement in Kenya is associated with environmental risk-factors	14
The global prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in residents of elderly care centers: a systematic review and meta-analysis	14
Infection prevention and control in tertiary care hospitals of Bangladesh: results from WHO infection prevention and control assessment framework (IPCAF)	14
Phenotype-genotype correlations among carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales recovered from four Egyptian hospitals with the report of SPM carbapenemase	13
The carbapenem resistance gene blaOXA-23 is disseminated by a conjugative plasmid containing the novel transposon Tn6681 in Acinetobacter johnsonii M19	13
Outbreaks of healthcare-associated infections linked to water-containing hospital equipment: a literature review	13
Colonization of a hand washing sink in a veterinary hospital by an Enterobacter hormaechei strain carrying multiple resistances to high importance antimicrobials	13
Implementation of the WHO hand hygiene strategy in Faranah regional hospital, Guinea	13
Exploring the economic impact of inappropriate antibiotic use: the case of upper respiratory tract infections in Ghana	13
Clonal spread of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae among patients at admission and discharge at a Vietnamese neonatal intensive care unit	13
Reducing the risk of tuberculosis transmission for HCWs in high incidence settings	13
Prevalence of fosfomycin resistance and gene mutations in clinical isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus	13
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	13
Establishment and validation of a nomogram to predict the in-hospital death risk of nosocomial infections in cancer patients	13
Molecular analysis of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from four teaching hospitals in Iran: the emergence of novel MRSA clones	13

No increase of device associated infections in German intensive care units during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020	13
Mechanisms affecting the implementation of a national antimicrobial stewardship programme; multi-professional perspectives explained using normalisation process theory	13
Parental self-medication with antibiotics for children promotes antibiotic over-prescribing in clinical settings in China	13
Global status of antimicrobial resistance among environmental isolates of Vibrio cholerae O1/O139: a systematic review and meta-analysis	13
Pillars for prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections: an Italian expert opinion statement	13
Predicting the occurrence of multidrug-resistant organism colonization or infection in ICU patients: development and validation of a novel multivariate prediction model	12
A rapid model for developing dry surface biofilms of Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa for in vitro disinfectant efficacy testing	12
A narrative review on current duodenoscope reprocessing techniques and novel developments	12
Gonococcal resistance can be viewed productively as part of a syndemic of antimicrobial resistance: an ecological analysis of 30 European countries	12
Gut microbiome signatures of nursing home residents carrying Enterobacteria producing extended-spectrum β-lactamases	12
Prescriptions patterns and appropriateness of usage of antibiotics in non-teaching community hospitals in South Korea: a multicentre retrospective study	12
A silent outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a neonatal intensive care unit	12
Hand hygiene improvement or antibiotic restriction to control the household transmission of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli: a mathematical modelling study	12
The association of a reduced susceptibility to moxifloxacin in causative Clostridium (Clostridioides) difficile strain with the clinical outcome of patients	12
Hand hygiene compliance and its drivers in long-term care facilities; observations and a survey	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
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	12