Scotoni, Manuela Koch, Julian Julian, Timothy R. Clack, Lauren Pitol, Ana K. Wolfensberger, Aline Grass, Robert N. Sax, Hugo
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BackgroundThe increase in antimicrobial resistance is of worldwide concern. Surrogate tracers attempt to simulate microbial transmission by avoiding the infectious risks associated with live organisms. We evaluated silica nanoparticles with encapsulated DNA (SPED) as a new promising surrogate tracer in healthcare.MethodsSPED and Escherichia coli we...
Conly, John Seto, W. H. Pittet, Didier Holmes, Alison Chu, May Hunter, Paul R.
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Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control
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Xu, Jiayao Wang, Xiaomin Sun, Kai Sing Lin, Leesa Zhou, Xudong
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BackgroundSelf-medication with antibiotics (SMA) is one of the most dangerous inappropriate antibiotic use behaviors. This study aims to investigate the impact of parental SMA for children before a consultation on their doctor’s subsequent antibiotic prescribing behavior, including intravenous (IV) antibiotic use in the clinical setting of China.Me...
Horumpende, Pius G. Mshana, Stephen E. Mouw, Elise F. Mmbaga, Blandina T. Chilongola, Jaffu O. de Mast, Quirijn
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BackgroundAntimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most urgent global health threats with low-resource countries being disproportionately affected. Targeted interventions require insight in antibiotic prescription practices. A point prevalence survey (PPS) is a well-known tool to get insight in antibiotic dispensing practices in hospitals and i...
Gesser-Edelsburg, Anat Cohen, Ricky Shahbari, Nour Abed Elhadi Hijazi, Rana
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BackgroundHealthcare workers (HCWs) are on the front line of the COVID-19 outbreak, and their constant exposure to infected patients and contaminated surfaces puts them at risk of acquiring and transmitting the infection. Therefore, they must employ protective measures. In practice, HCWs in Israel were not fully prepared for this sudden COVID-19 ou...
Dray, Sandrine Lehingue, Samuel Valera, Sabine Nouguier, Philippe Boussen, Michel Salah Daviet, Florence Bastian, Delphine Pilarczik, Estelle Jousset, Isabelle Le Floch, Sébastien
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BackgroundAppropriate hand hygiene (HH) is key to reducing healthcare-acquired infections. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends education and training to improve HH knowledge and compliance. Physicians are ranked among the worst of all healthcare workers for compliant handrubbing with its origin probably being the failure to learn this es...
Loftus, M. J. Curtis, S. J. Naidu, R. Cheng, A. C. Jenney, A. W. J. Mitchell, B. G. Russo, P. L. Rafai, E. Peleg, A. Y. Stewardson, A. J.
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BackgroundHealthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and antimicrobial use (AMU) are important drivers of antimicrobial resistance, yet there is minimal data from the Pacific region. We sought to determine the point prevalence of HAIs and AMU at Fiji’s largest hospital, the Colonial War Memorial Hospital (CWMH) in Suva. A secondary aim was to evaluate...
Elton, Linzy Thomason, Margaret J. Tembo, John Velavan, Thirumalaisamy P. Pallerla, Srinivas Reddy Arruda, Liã Bárbara Vairo, Francesco Montaldo, Chiara Ntoumi, Francine Abdel Hamid, Muzamil M.
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BackgroundAntimicrobial resistance (AMR) is of growing concern globally and AMR status in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is undefined due to a lack of real-time data recording, surveillance and regulation. World Health Organization (WHO) Joint External Evaluation (JEE) reports are voluntary, collaborative processes to assess country capacities and prepar...
Härtel, Christoph Faust, Kirstin Fortmann, Ingmar Humberg, Alexander Pagel, Julia Haug, Clara Kühl, Reinhard Bohnhorst, Bettina Pirr, Sabine Viemann, Dorothee
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BackgroundIn 2013 German infection surveillance guidelines recommended weekly colonization screening for multidrug-resistant (MDRO) or highly epidemic organisms for neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) and extended hygiene measures based on screening results. It remains a matter of debate whether screening is worth the effort. We therefore aimed t...
Fokam, Joseph Takou, Desire Semengue, Ezechiel Ngoufack Jagni Teto, Georges Beloumou, Grace Dambaya, Beatrice Santoro, Maria-Mercedes Mossiang, Leonella Billong, Serge Clotaire Cham, Fatim
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BackgroundSub-Saharan African countries are transitioning to dolutegravir-based regimens, even for patients with extensive previous drug exposure, including first-generation integrase strand-transfer inhibitors (INSTI) such as raltegravir. Such exposure might have implications on cross-resistance to dolutegravir-based antiretroviral therapies (ART)...
