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MRSA surveillance programmes worldwide: moving towards a harmonised international approach
soft-tissue infection cases in addition to all BSI cases. Health Topics: Staphylococci and MRSA Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) Stafylokokken en MRSA Staphylocoques et SARM Résistance aux antimicrobiens (AMR) ...
Fluoroquinolone resistance in Escherichia coli isolates after exposure to non-fluoroquinolone antibiotics: a retrospective case–control study
data collected retrospectively in a case–control study linking microbiological test results (isolated bacteria and their susceptibility) of urine samples routinely collected from primary, secondary and ...
Genomic epidemiology of emerging ESBL-producing Kentucky in Europe.
Routine surveillance at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) detected cases with a ciprofloxacin-resistant. Kentucky with the ESBL-gene. Ensuing research identified 78 cases in ...
Development of an NGS-Based Workflow for Improved Monitoring of Circulating Plasmids in Support of Risk Assessment of Antimicrobial Resistance Gene Dissemination.
(Oxford Nanopore Technologies) and a combination of both (hybrid). Furthermore, the added value of conjugation of a plasmid to a known host was evaluated. As a case study, an isolate harboring a large, ...
Attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years caused by infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the EU and the European Economic Area in 2015: a population-level modelling analysis
burden of infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria of public health concern in countries of the EU and European Economic Area (EEA) in 2015, measured in number of cases, attributable deaths, and ...
Surveillance of antimicrobial resistant bacteria in Belgian hospitals: Report 2016
(among S. aureus isolates) was 15.7% in acute care hospitals and 29.1% in chronic care hospitals. The mean incidence of nosocomial MRSA in acute care hospitals was 0.93 cases per 1 000 admissions. The ...
National Surveillance of Infections acquired in Intensive Care Units: Annual Report 2015
study protocol and case definitions. Based on the latest available report on incidence of ICU-acquired Infections, BE results for 2015 rank lower than the EU mean of 7.7 ICU-acquired Pneumonia and 3.0 ...
Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection in Belgium: Report 2016
from the 2015 CDI transmission study point to a relatively low proportion of HA- CDI episodes in Belgian hospitals that can be attributable to in-hospital transmission from CDI symptomatic cases ...
Falciparum malaria molecular drug resistance in the Democratic Republic of Congo: a systematic review.
BACKGROUND: Malaria cases were estimated to 207 million in 2013. One of the problems of malaria control is the emergence and spread of Plasmodium falciparum strains that become resistant to almost all drugs ...
Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection in Belgium: Report 2014
of cases which are community-associated, as described in other countries. Incidence of HA CDI in 2013 was highest in Brussels and lowest in Flanders. Other characteristics of cases have remained ...