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Drivers of MERS-CoV transmission: what do we know? [PDF]

, 2016
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Al-Tawfiq, Jaffar A., Memish, Ziad A.
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Surface disinfection challenges for Candida auris: an in-vitro study [PDF]

, 2018
The emerging pathogenic multidrug-resistant yeast Candida auris is an important source of healthcare-associated infections and of growing global clinical concern.
Akinbobola, A., Jones, B.L., Kean, R., MacKay, W.G., McKloud, E., Ramage, G., Sherry, L., Short, B., Townsend, E., Williams, C.   +9 more
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Genomic Evolution of Two Acinetobacter baumannii Clinical Strains from ST-2 Clones Isolated in 2000 and 2010 (ST-2_clon_2000 and ST-2_clon_2010) [PDF]

, 2016
Acinetobacter baumannii is a successful nosocomial pathogen due to its ability to persist in hospital environments by acquiring mobile elements such as transposons, plasmids, and phages. In this study, we compared two genomes of A.
Blasco, L., Fernández García, L., Florido, J.P., Gato, E., López, M., Pachón Díaz, Jerónimo, Pascual Hernández, Álvaro, Rodriguez Baño, Jesus, Rueda, A   +8 more
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Candida auris, what do paediatricians need to know? [PDF]

, 2018
AW is supported by the Wellcome Trust Strategic Award (grant 097377) and the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology (grant MR/N006364/1) at the University of Aberdeen.Peer reviewedPublisher ...
Warris, Adilia
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Comparative analysis of IR-Biotyper, MLST, cgMLST, and WGS for clustering of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a neonatal intensive care unit

Microbiology Spectrum
Healthcare-associated infections caused by vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREFM) pose a significant threat to healthcare. Confirming the relatedness of the bacterial isolates from different patients is challenging.
Sunggyun Park, Namhee Ryoo
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Applying the Wells-Riley equation to the risk of airborne infection in hospital environments: The importance of stochastic and proximity effects [PDF]

, 2008
Although the Wells-Riley equation for airborne infection is used to estimate infection risk in a range of environments, researchers generally assume complete air mixing and don’t consider either the stochastic effects in a small population or the ...
Noakes, C.J., Sleigh, P.A.
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Epidemiology of intensive care unit-acquired sepsis in Italy: results of the SPIN-UTI network [PDF]

, 2018
BACKGROUND: Sepsis is the major cause of mortality from any infectious disease worldwide. Sepsis may be the result of a healthcare associated infection (HAI): the most frequent adverse events during care delivery especially in Intensive Care Units ...
Agodi A, Arrigoni C, Auxilia F, Barchitta M, Brusaferro S, D'Errico MM, Fabiani L, Laurenti P, Mattaliano AR, Montagna MT, Mura I, Orsi GB, Pasquarella C, Squeri R, Tardivo S, Torregrossa MV   +15 more
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Nosocomial outbreak of Pantoea agglomerans in a pediatric urgent care center

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Pantoea agglomerans is a Gram-negative bacterium whose isolates can be found in blood cultures and other secretions. This article described one outbreak of sepsis due to this bacterium in the pediatric urgent care center of a tertiary hospital, in ...
Eliana L. Bicudo, Vanise O. Macedo, Marlene A. Carrara, Fabíola F.S. Castro, Ruth I. Rage   +4 more
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Investigation and control of a suspected nosocomial outbreak of pan-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in an intensive care unit

Open Medicine, 2017
Acinetobacter baumannii, a non-fermenting Gram-negative bacterium, is a common pathogen in intensive care units (ICU) that is easily spread through contact and can cause nosocomial outbreaks.
Ying Qian, Qun Li, Qinzhong Liu, Mingliang Chen, Hong Chen, Ni Zou   +5 more
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Tracking Carbapenem-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Outbreak in an Intensive Care Unit by Whole Genome Sequencing

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2019
The presence of carbapenem-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (CP-Kp) is a serious threat to the control of nosocomial infections. Plasmid-mediated horizontal transfer of the resistance gene makes it difficult to control hospital-acquired CP- Kp infections.
Chen Chen, Yi Zhang, Sheng-Lei Yu, Yang Zhou, Si-Yu Yang, Jia-Lin Jin, Shu Chen, Peng Cui, Jing Wu, Ning Jiang, Wen-Hong Zhang, Wen-Hong Zhang   +11 more
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