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MULTICENTER STUDY
Valeria Fabre, Sara E Cosgrove, Fernanda C Lessa, Twisha S Patel, Guadalupe Reyes-Morales, Washington R Aleman, Andrea Alvarado Alvarez, Bowen Aquiles, Ana B Arauz, Facundo Arguello, Maria Fernanda Barberis, Laura Barcan, Maria P Bernachea, Marisa L Bernan, Carlos Buitrago, Maria Del Carmen Bangher, Ximena Castañeda, Angel M Colque, Alfredo Canton, Rosa Contreras, Silvia Correa, Gustavo Costilla Campero, Lidia Espinola, Clara Esquivel, Cecilia Ezcurra, Leandro A Falleroni, Johana Fernandez, Sandra Ferrari, Natalia Frassone, Carlos Garcia Cruz, Maria Isabel Garzón, Carlos H Gomez Quintero, José A Gonzalez, Lucrecia Guaymas, Fausto Guerrero-Toapanta, Sandra Lambert, Diego Laplume, Paola R Lazarte, César G Lemir, Angelica Lopez, Itzel L Lopez, Herberth Maldonado, Guadalupe Martinez, Diego M Maurizi, Mario Melgar, Florencia Mesplet, Carlos Morales Pertuz, Cristina Moreno, Gabriela L Moya, Yanina Nuccetelli, Glendys Núñez, Carolina Osuna, Belén Palacio, Florencia Pellice, Carla Raffo, Fanny Reino Choto, Gerardo Ricoy, Viviana Rodriguez, Federico Romero, Juan J Romero, Maria Eugenia Russo, Graciela Sadino, Nancy Sandoval, Mirta G Silva, Alejandra M Urueña, Ligia Vence Reyes, Hugo Videla, Marisol Valle, Silvia Vera Amate Perez, Hernan Vergara-Samur, Silvina Villamandos, Olmedo Villarreal, Alejandra Viteri, Eduardo Warley, Rodolfo E Quiros
BACKGROUND: The burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Latin America is high. Little is known about healthcare workers' (HCWs) knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions of antimicrobial stewardship (AS), AMR, and antibiotic use (AU) in the region. METHODS: HCWs from 42 hospitals from 5 Latin American countries were invited to take an electronic, voluntary, anonymous survey regarding knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions of AS, AMR, and AU between March-April 2023...
April 26, 2024: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Guanhao Zheng, Jiaqi Cai, Han Deng, Haoyu Yang, Wenling Xiong, Erzhen Chen, Hao Bai, Juan He
BACKGROUND: Colonization of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterale (CRE) is considered as one of vital preconditions for infection, with corresponding high morbidity and mortality. It is important to construct a reliable prediction model for those CRE carriers with high risk of infection. METHODS: A retrospective cohort study was conducted in two Chinese tertiary hospitals for patients with CRE colonization from 2011 to 2021. Univariable analysis and the Fine-Gray sub-distribution hazard model were utilized to identify potential predictors for CRE-colonized infection, while death was the competing event...
April 24, 2024: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ermira Tartari, Jacopo Garlasco, Marcela Hernández-de Mezerville, Moi Lin Ling, Hilda Márquez-Villarreal, Wing-Hong Seto, Anne Simon, Thomas-Jörg Hennig, Didier Pittet
BACKGROUND: Hand hygiene is a crucial measure for the prevention of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). The Hand Hygiene Excellence Award (HHEA) is an international programme acknowledging healthcare facilities for their leadership in implementing hand hygiene improvement programmes, including the World Health Organisation's Multimodal Improvement Strategy. This study aimed at summarising the results of the HHEA campaign between 2010 and 2021 and investigating the relationship between different hand hygiene parameters based on data from participating healthcare facilities...
April 19, 2024: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Palpouguini Lompo, Anne-Sophie Heroes, Kadija Ouédraogo, Patient Okitale, Abel Wakpo, Jocelyne Kalema, Octavie Lunguya, Halidou Tinto, Dissou Affolabi, Lassana Sangaré, Jan Jacobs
BACKGROUND: Antiseptics, disinfectants, and hand hygiene products can be contaminated with bacteria and cause healthcare-associated infections, which are underreported from low- and middle-income countries. To better understand the user-related risk factors, we conducted a knowledge, awareness, and practice survey among hospital staff in sub-Saharan Africa. METHODS: Self-administered questionnaire distributed among healthcare workers in three tertiary care hospitals (Burkina Faso, Benin, Democratic Republic of the Congo)...
April 16, 2024: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Elisabeth König, Lisa Kriegl, Christian Pux, Michael Uhlmann, Walter Schippinger, Alexander Avian, Robert Krause, Ines Zollner-Schwetz
BACKGROUND: Widespread inappropriate use of antimicrobial substances drives resistance development worldwide. In long-term care facilities (LTCF), antibiotics are among the most frequently prescribed medications. More than one third of antimicrobial agents prescribed in LTCFs are for urinary tract infections (UTI). We aimed to increase the number of appropriate antimicrobial treatments for UTIs in LTCFs using a multi-faceted antimicrobial stewardship intervention. METHODS: We performed a non-randomized cluster-controlled intervention study...
April 16, 2024: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Min Wang, Wenjuan Li, Hui Wang, Peixin Song
BACKGROUND: COVID-19 and bacterial/fungal coinfections have posed significant challenges to human health. However, there is a lack of good tools for predicting coinfection risk to aid clinical work. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to investigate the risk factors for bacterial/fungal coinfection among COVID-19 patients and to develop machine learning models to estimate the risk of coinfection. METHODS: In this retrospective cohort study, we enrolled adult inpatients confirmed with COVID-19 in a tertiary hospital between January 1 and July 31, 2023, in China and collected baseline information at admission...
April 14, 2024: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
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EDITORIAL
Claire Kilpatrick, Ermira Tartari, Miranda Deeves, Didier Pittet, Benedetta Allegranzi
The World Health Organization's (WHO) World Hand Hygiene Day continues to "bring people together and accelerate hand hygiene action at the point of care in health care to contribute to a reduction in health care-associated infections and the achievement of safer, quality health care for all".
April 12, 2024: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
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LETTER
Patricia Volkow, Tania Guadalupe Chávez-Chávez, Bertha García-Pineda, Consuelo Velázquez-Acosta, Daniel Carpio-Guadarrama, Diana Vilar-Compte, Cyntia Ibanes-Gutiérrez
In the healthcare sector, the implementation of standardized procedures, such as those commonly employed in franchises to ensure consistent quality, remains underprioritized. Within this framework, we focus on the importance of standardized central venous catheter (CVC) insertion procedures to prevent healthcare-associated outbreaks. While antimicrobial resistance (AMR) may still not be the most prevalent problem in some institutions, its increasing significance certainly underlines the urgency of infection prevention...
April 12, 2024: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Costanza Vicentini, Roberta Bussolino, Claudia Gastaldo, Marta Castagnotto, Fortunato Paolo D'Ancona, Carla Maria Zotti
BACKGROUND: In November 2022, Italy participated in the third edition of the European Centre for disease prevention and control (ECDC) point prevalence survey (PPS) of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in acute-care hospitals. A questionnaire based on the WHO infection prevention and control assessment framework (IPCAF) was included, which aims to investigate multimodal strategies for the implementation of IPC interventions. METHODS: A PPS was conducted using the ECDC PPS protocol version 6...
April 11, 2024: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
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REVIEW
Mengistie Yirsaw Gobezie, Minimize Hassen, Nuhamin Alemayehu Tesfaye, Tewodros Solomon, Mulat Belete Demessie, Tesfaye Dessale Kassa, Teklehaimanot Fentie Wendie, Abel Andualem, Ermiyas Alemayehu, Yaschilal Muche Belayneh
INTRODUCTION: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a pressing global health concern, particularly pronounced in low-resource settings. In Ethiopia, the escalating prevalence of carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) poses a substantial threat to public health. METHODS: A comprehensive search of databases, including PubMed, Scopus, Embase, Hinari, and Google Scholar, identified relevant studies. Inclusion criteria encompassed observational studies reporting the prevalence of meropenem-resistant P...
April 10, 2024: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Gaud Catho, Loïc Fortchantre, Daniel Teixeira, Murielle Galas-Haddad, Filippo Boroli, Marie-Noëlle Chraïti, Mohamed Abbas, Stephan Harbarth, Niccolò Buetti
BACKGROUND: Most surveillance systems for catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSI) and central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) are based on manual chart review. Our objective was to validate a fully automated algorithm for CRBSI and CLABSI surveillance in intensive care units (ICU). METHODS: We developed a fully automated algorithm to detect CRBSI, CLABSI and ICU-onset bloodstream infections (ICU-BSI) in patients admitted to the ICU of a tertiary care hospital in Switzerland...
April 10, 2024: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Uduak Okomo, Giorgia Gon, Saffiatou Darboe, Isatou C M Sey, Oluwatosin Nkereuwem, Lamin Leigh, Nfamara Camara, Lamin Makalo, Abdoulie Keita, Stephanie J Dancer, Wendy Graham, Alexander M Aiken
BACKGROUND: Effective surface cleaning in hospitals is crucial to prevent the transmission of pathogens. However, hospitals in low- and middle-income countries face cleaning challenges due to limited resources and inadequate training. METHODS: We assessed the effectiveness of a modified TEACH CLEAN programme for trainers in reducing surface microbiological contamination in the newborn unit of a tertiary referral hospital in The Gambia. We utilised a quasi-experimental design and compared data against those from the labour ward...
April 8, 2024: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Anan S Jarab, Tasneem O Al-Alawneh, Osama Y Alshogran, Shrouq Abu Heshmeh, Tareq L Mukattash, Yara A Naser, Eman Alefishat
BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial stewardship (ASP) is considered a key prevention strategy in addressing the worldwide concern of accelerating antimicrobial resistance. Limited research is available regarding healthcare providers' knowledge and attitude toward antimicrobial stewardship and the barriers for its implementation. METHODS: The present cross-sectional study was conducted on pharmacists and healthcare prescribers (HCPs) in different hospital sites across Jordan...
April 2, 2024: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Margaret Carrel, Qianyi Shi, Gosia S Clore, Shinya Hasegawa, Matthew Smith, Eli N Perencevich, Michihiko Goto
BACKGROUND: While the use of cumulative susceptibility reports, antibiograms, is recommended for improved empiric therapy and antibiotic stewardship, the predictive ability of antibiograms has not been well-studied. While enhanced antibiograms have been shown to better capture variation in susceptibility profiles by characteristics such as infection site or patient age, the potential for seasonal or spatial variation in susceptibility has not been assessed as important in predicting likelihood of susceptibility...
March 22, 2024: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
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Paul Laffont-Lozes, Romaric Larcher, Florian Salipante, Geraldine Leguelinel-Blache, Catherine Dunyach-Remy, Jean-Philippe Lavigne, Albert Sotto, Paul Loubet
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March 21, 2024: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Feyissa Regassa Senbato, Deneke Wolde, Merga Belina, Kehabtimer Shiferaw Kotiso, Girmay Medhin, Wondwossen Amogne, Tadesse Eguale
BACKGROUND: Standard Precautions (SPs) are the minimal infection prevention and control (IPC) measures that apply to all patient care activities at all times, regardless of whether the patient has a suspected or proven disease, in any place where healthcare service is provided. These evidence-based practices protect healthcare workers (HCWs) from infection while preventing the spread of infectious agents among patients, visitors, and the environment. OBJECTIVES: Assessed compliance of HCWs working in public hospitals in Addis Ababa to infection prevention and control SPs, and factors associated with noncompliance...
March 13, 2024: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Cansu Cimen, Erik Bathoorn, Arjo J Loeve, Monika Fliss, Matthijs S Berends, Wouter B Nagengast, Axel Hamprecht, Andreas Voss, Mariëtte Lokate
Contamination of duodenoscopes is a significant concern due to the transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) among patients who undergo endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), resulting in outbreaks worldwide. In July 2020, it was determined that three different patients, all had undergone ERCP with the same duodenoscope, were infected. Two patients were infected with blaCTX-M-15 encoding Citrobacter freundii, one experiencing a bloodstream infection and the other a urinary tract infection, while another patient had a bloodstream infection caused by blaSHV-12 encoding Klebsiella pneumoniae...
March 8, 2024: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Aline Wolfensberger, Alexandra U Scherrer, Hugo Sax
BACKGROUND: Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) and its specific subset, non-ventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia (nvHAP) are significant contributors to patient morbidity and mortality. Automated surveillance systems for these healthcare-associated infections have emerged as a potentially beneficial replacement for manual surveillance. This systematic review aims to synthesise the existing literature on the characteristics and performance of automated nvHAP and HAP surveillance systems...
March 6, 2024: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
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REVIEW
Aurélie Bocquier, Berkehan Erkilic, Martin Babinet, Céline Pulcini, Nelly Agrinier
BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial stewardship programmes are needed in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) to tackle antimicrobial resistance. We aimed to identify factors associated with antibiotic use in LTCFs. Such information would be useful to guide antimicrobial stewardship programmes. METHOD: We conducted a systematic review of studies retrieved from PubMed, Cochrane Library, Embase, APA PsycArticles, APA PsycINFO, APA PsycTherapy, ScienceDirect and Web of Science...
March 6, 2024: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Xinfei Chen, Minya Lu, Yao Wang, Han Zhang, Xinmiao Jia, Peiyao Jia, Wenhang Yang, Jiawei Chen, Guobin Song, Jianguo Zhang, Yingchun Xu
BACKGROUND: Aeromonas hydrophila infections can cause gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhea; however, deep infections are rarely reported. Outbreaks of A. hydrophila are reported more frequently in fish, poultry, and snakes than in humans. This study aimed to track clonal relatedness of deep infections caused by A. hydrophila using whole genome sequencing (WGS). METHODS: We collected three isolates of A. hydrophila in July 19 to August 29, 2019, from patients that underwent spine surgery...
March 3, 2024: Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
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