Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control

Article	Citations
Nosocomial transmission and outbreaks of coronavirus disease 2019: the need to protect both patients and healthcare workers	208
Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in low- and middle-income countries: a scattered picture	175
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in COVID-19 patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis (November 2019–June 2021)	128
Antimicrobial use in food animals and human health: time to implement ‘One Health’ approach	101
Knowledge of infection prevention and control among healthcare workers and factors influencing compliance: a systematic review	91
Non-prescription dispensing of antibiotic agents among community drug retail outlets in Sub-Saharan African countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis	82
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	80
Antimicrobial multidrug resistance in the era of COVID-19: a forgotten plight?	68
Genetic relatedness of multidrug resistant Escherichia coli isolated from humans, chickens and poultry environments	67
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Systematic review and meta-analysis of the epidemiology of vancomycin-resistance Staphylococcus aureus isolates	66
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare-associated infections in intensive care unit patients: a retrospective cohort study	66
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	52
Adherence to personal protective equipment use among healthcare workers caring for confirmed COVID-19 and alleged non-COVID-19 patients	50
Quaternary ammonium disinfectants and antiseptics: tolerance, resistance and potential impact on antibiotic resistance	47
A review of national action plans on antimicrobial resistance: strengths and weaknesses	46
Economic burden of antibiotic resistance in China: a national level estimate for inpatients	45
Barriers to implementing antimicrobial stewardship programs in three low- and middle-income country tertiary care settings: findings from a multi-site qualitative study	44
Ultraviolet disinfection robots to improve hospital cleaning: Real promise or just a gimmick?	40
Impact of environmental hygiene interventions on healthcare-associated infections and patient colonization: a systematic review	39
Assessing transparency and accountability of national action plans on antimicrobial resistance in 15 African countries	35
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	35
Knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding antimicrobial use and resistance among communities of Ilala, Kilosa and Kibaha districts of Tanzania	35
A one health framework to estimate the cost of antimicrobial resistance	34
Central venous catheter-related bloodstream infection and colonization: the impact of insertion site and distribution of multidrug-resistant pathogens	33
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	33

Novel chromosomal insertions of ISEcp1-blaCTX-M-15 and diverse antimicrobial resistance genes in Zambian clinical isolates of Enterobacter cloacae and Escherichia coli	32
Antimicrobial stewardship in rural and remote primary health care: a narrative review	31
Evaluation of the health and healthcare system burden due to antimicrobial-resistant Escherichia coli infections in humans: a systematic review and meta-analysis	31
Understanding antibiotic use for pig farming in Thailand: a qualitative study	31
Prevalence of pathogenic Klebsiella pneumoniae based on PCR capsular typing harbouring carbapenemases encoding genes in Uganda tertiary hospitals	30
Prevalence and molecular characteristics of ESBL and AmpC β -lactamase producing Enterobacteriaceae strains isolated from UTIs in Egypt	30
Incidence and risk factors of surgical site infections and related antibiotic resistance in Freetown, Sierra Leone: a prospective cohort study	29
The global prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in residents of elderly care centers: a systematic review and meta-analysis	29
The global prevalence of fusidic acid resistance in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus: a systematic review and meta-analysis	29
A decade of antimicrobial resistance research in social science fields: a scientometric review	27
What matters: non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 in Europe	27
Prolonged SARS-CoV-2 infection following rituximab treatment: clinical course and response to therapeutic interventions correlated with quantitative viral cultures and cycle threshold values	27
Increasing incidence and antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli bloodstream infections: a multinational population-based cohort study	27
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	26
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	26
Infections and antimicrobial resistance in intensive care units in lower-middle income countries: a scoping review	26
Prevalence of antimicrobial resistance and its clinical implications in Ethiopia: a systematic review	26
Molecular epidemiology of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales in Thailand, 2016–2018	25
Extensive outbreak of colistin resistant, carbapenemase (blaOXA-48, blaNDM) producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a large tertiary care hospital, India	25
The use of a UV-C disinfection robot in the routine cleaning process: a field study in an Academic hospital	25
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia bacteremia in children: risk factors and mortality rate	25
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing results from 13 hospitals in Viet Nam: VINARES 2016–2017	25
Blood bacterial resistant investigation collaborative system (BRICS) report: a national surveillance in China from 2014 to 2019	25
Impact of an e-learning module on personal protective equipment knowledge in student paramedics: a randomized controlled trial	25
Candida tropicalis distribution and drug resistance is correlated with ERG11 and UPC2 expression	24
Pathogens distribution and antimicrobial resistance in bloodstream infections in twenty-five neonatal intensive care units in China, 2017–2019	24
Bloodstream infections caused by ST2 Acinetobacter baumannii: risk factors, antibiotic regimens, and virulence over 6 years period in China	24
Prevalence of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in a Chinese multidrug-resistant TB cohort after redefinition	23
A five-component infection control bundle to permanently eliminate a carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii spreading in an intensive care unit	23
Nosocomial infections among COVID-19 patients: an analysis of intensive care unit surveillance data	23
The epidemiology of carbapenem resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii complex in Germany (2014–2018): an analysis of data from the national Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance system	23
Bacterial contamination of neonatal intensive care units: How safe are the neonates?	23
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	22
Infection prevention and control in tertiary care hospitals of Bangladesh: results from WHO infection prevention and control assessment framework (IPCAF)	22
Taxonomy, virulence determinants and antimicrobial susceptibility of Aeromonas spp. isolated from bacteremia in southeastern China	22
Scientific evidence supports aerosol transmission of SARS-COV-2	22
Emergence of nosocomial associated opportunistic pathogens in the gut microbiome after antibiotic treatment	22
Knowledge, attitudes and behaviors on antibiotic use and resistance among healthcare workers in Italy, 2019: investigation by a clustering method	21
The effect of eye protection on SARS-CoV-2 transmission: a systematic review	21
Does the problem begin at the beginning? Medical students’ knowledge and beliefs regarding antibiotics and resistance: a systematic review	21
Antimicrobial stewardship in high-risk febrile neutropenia patients	21
Risk factors and mortality of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infection in a tertiary-care hospital in China: an eight-year retrospective study	20
Does respiratory co-infection facilitate dispersal of SARS-CoV-2? investigation of a super-spreading event in an open-space office	20
How biofilm changes our understanding of cleaning and disinfection	20
Faecal microbiota transplantation reduces amounts of antibiotic resistance genes in patients with multidrug-resistant organisms	20
Effects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on antimicrobial prevalence and prescribing in a tertiary hospital in Singapore	20
Core components of infection prevention and control programs at the facility level in Georgia: key challenges and opportunities	20
Reducing the risk of tuberculosis transmission for HCWs in high incidence settings	19
Characterization of florfenicol resistance genes in the coagulase-negative Staphylococcus (CoNS) isolates and genomic features of a multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus lentus strain H29	19
The epidemiology of bloodstream infections and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns in Thuringia, Germany: a five-year prospective, state-wide surveillance study (AlertsNet)	19

Predictors of antibiotic prescriptions: a knowledge, attitude and practice survey among physicians in tertiary hospitals in Nigeria	19
Global status of tetracycline resistance among clinical isolates of Vibrio cholerae: a systematic review and meta-analysis	19
Prescriptions patterns and appropriateness of usage of antibiotics in non-teaching community hospitals in South Korea: a multicentre retrospective study	19
Systematic review on use, cost and clinical efficacy of automated decontamination devices	19
Epidemiology and outcomes of bloodstream infections in severe burn patients: a six-year retrospective study	19
Real-world use of ceftolozane/tazobactam: a systematic literature review	19
Why psychiatry is different - challenges and difficulties in managing a nosocomial outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in hospital care	19
Intensivists’ beliefs about rapid multiplex molecular diagnostic testing and its potential role in improving prescribing decisions and antimicrobial stewardship: a qualitative study	18
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	18
Pillars for prevention and control of healthcare-associated infections: an Italian expert opinion statement	18
Carriage of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria in a high-density informal settlement in Kenya is associated with environmental risk-factors	18
Global status of antimicrobial resistance among environmental isolates of Vibrio cholerae O1/O139: a systematic review and meta-analysis	18
Assessment of antibiotic resistance changes during the Covid-19 pandemic in northeast of Iran during 2020–2022: an epidemiological study	18
Impact of respirator versus surgical masks on SARS-CoV-2 acquisition in healthcare workers: a prospective multicentre cohort	18
Approaches to multidrug-resistant organism prevention and control in long-term care facilities for older people: a systematic review and meta-analysis	17
Clinical and microbiological characteristics of nosocomial, healthcare-associated, and community-acquired Klebsiella pneumoniae infections in Guangzhou, China	17
Lower risk of bloodstream infections for peripherally inserted central catheters compared to central venous catheters in critically ill patients	17
Outbreaks of healthcare-associated infections linked to water-containing hospital equipment: a literature review	17
Infection prevention and control (IPC) implementation in low-resource settings: a qualitative analysis	17
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	17
Systematic screening on admission for SARS-CoV-2 to detect asymptomatic infections	17
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	17
Epidemiology of ESBL-producing Escherichia coli from repeated prevalence studies over 11 years in a long-term-care facility	16
Sepsis: emerging pathogens and antimicrobial resistance in Ethiopian referral hospitals	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
No increase of device associated infections in German intensive care units during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020	16
Interhospital transmission of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in Aomori, Japan	16
Establishment and validation of a nomogram to predict the in-hospital death risk of nosocomial infections in cancer patients	16
Blood culture utilization and epidemiology of antimicrobial-resistant bloodstream infections before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Indonesian national referral hospital	16
Phenotype-genotype correlations among carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales recovered from four Egyptian hospitals with the report of SPM carbapenemase	16
Antimicrobial prophylaxis administration after umbilical cord clamping in cesarean section and the risk of surgical site infection: a cohort study with 55,901 patients	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
β-lactamase-mediated resistance in MDR-Pseudomonas aeruginosa from Qatar	15
Antibiotic use by poultry farmers in Kiambu County, Kenya: exploring practices and drivers of potential overuse	15
The correlation between ATP measurement and microbial contamination of inanimate surfaces	15
Inappropriate use of antibiotics and its predictors in pediatric patients admitted at the Central Hospital of Nampula, Mozambique	15
Hand hygiene compliance and its drivers in long-term care facilities; observations and a survey	15
Exploring the economic impact of inappropriate antibiotic use: the case of upper respiratory tract infections in Ghana	15
The carbapenem resistance gene blaOXA-23 is disseminated by a conjugative plasmid containing the novel transposon Tn6681 in Acinetobacter johnsonii M19	15
Fluoroquinolone resistance of Staphylococcus epidermidis isolated from healthy conjunctiva and analysis of their mutations in quinolone-resistance determining region	15
Temporo-spatial variations in resistance determinants and clonality of Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains from Romanian hospitals and wastewaters	15
Education and training programmes for infection prevention and control professionals: mapping the current opportunities and local needs in European countries	15
Clonal spread of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae among patients at admission and discharge at a Vietnamese neonatal intensive care unit	15
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	15
Antibiotic-resistance in medically important bacteria isolated from commercial herbal medicines in Africa from 2000 to 2021: a systematic review and meta-analysis	14
Epidemiology of carbapenem-resistant and carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales in the Netherlands 2017–2019	14
Assessment of knowledge and implementation practices of the ventilator acquired pneumonia (VAP) bundle in the intensive care unit of a private hospital	14
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	14
How public health crises expose systemic, day-to-day health inequalities in low- and-middle income countries: an example from East Africa	14
A narrative review on current duodenoscope reprocessing techniques and novel developments	14
Antibiotic prescribing in inpatient and outpatient settings in Iran: a systematic review and meta-analysis study	14
Burden of five healthcare associated infections in Australia	14
Prevention of central line-associated bloodstream infections: a survey of ICU nurses’ knowledge and practice in China	14
Risk factors for nosocomial rectal colonization with carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in hospital: a matched case–control study	14
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	14
Duration of central venous catheter placement and central line-associated bloodstream infections after the adoption of prevention bundles: a two-year retrospective study	13
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	13
Exploring determinants of hand hygiene compliance in LTCFs: a qualitative study using Flottorps’ integrated checklist of determinants of practice	13
Dimensions of poverty as risk factors for antimicrobial resistant organisms in Canada: a structured narrative review	13
What is the impact of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs)? The results of a survey among a regional network of infectious disease centres	12
Microbiologically confirmed infections and antibiotic-resistance in a national surveillance study of hospitalised patients who died with COVID-19, Italy 2020–2021	12
Antimicrobial resistance and one health in the post COVID-19 era: What should health students learn?	12
Environmental surveillance of ESBL and carbapenemase-producing gram-negative bacteria in a Ghanaian Tertiary Hospital	12
The COVID-19 pandemic and N95 masks: reusability and decontamination methods	12
Sanitary installations and wastewater plumbing as reservoir for the long-term circulation and transmission of carbapenemase producing Citrobacter freundii clones in a hospital setting	12
NeoCLEAN: a multimodal strategy to enhance environmental cleaning in a resource-limited neonatal unit	12
Education level and misuse of antibiotics in the general population: a systematic review and dose–response meta-analysis	12
Prevalence and characterization of antimicrobial resistance among gram-negative bacteria isolated from febrile hospitalized patients in central Ethiopia	11
Surveillance of Enterobacter cloacae complex colonization and comparative analysis of different typing methods on a neonatal intensive care unit in Germany	11
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	11
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	11
Patterns of multidrug resistant organism acquisition in an adult specialist burns service: a retrospective review	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
Genomic analysis of Staphylococcus aureus from the West African Dwarf (WAD) goat in Nigeria	11
ESBL/pAmpC-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae carriage among veterinary healthcare workers in the Netherlands	11
Carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa: an assessment of frequency of isolation from ICU versus non-ICU, phenotypic and genotypic profiles in a multinational population of hospitalized patients	11
Management of a hospital-wide vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium outbreak in a Dutch general hospital, 2014–2017: successful control using a restrictive screening strategy	11
Tanzanian primary healthcare workers’ experiences of antibiotic prescription and understanding of antibiotic resistance in common childhood infections: a qualitative phenomenographic study	11
Carriage of ESBL-producing Gram-negative bacteria by flies captured in a hospital and its suburban surroundings in Ethiopia	11
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	11

Impact of a multifaceted intervention to improve antibiotic prescribing: a pragmatic cluster-randomised controlled trial	11
Systematic review on factors influencing the effectiveness of alcohol-based hand rubbing in healthcare	11
First report of whole-genome analysis of an extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolate with bedaquiline, linezolid and clofazimine resistance from Uganda	11
Investigation and control of an outbreak of urinary tract infections caused by Burkholderia cepacian-contaminated anesthetic gel	11
A cross-sectional study of antimicrobial use among self-medicating COVID-19 cases in Nyeri County, Kenya	11
Admission screening and cohort care decrease carbapenem resistant enterobacteriaceae in Vietnamese pediatric ICU’s	11
Efficacy of mupirocin, neomycin and octenidine for nasal Staphylococcus aureus decolonisation: a retrospective cohort study	11