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A Diagnostic Stewardship Intervention to Improve Blood Culture Use Among Adult Non-Neutropenic Inpatients: The DISTRIBUTE study

scientific article published on 05 August 2020

Active Surveillance Cultures and Decolonization to Reduce Staphylococcus aureus Infections in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

scientific article published on 4 January 2016

Analysis of Morphologically Similar Staphylococcus aureus Colonies for Assessment of Phenotypic and Genotypic Correlation

scientific article published on 10 May 2017

Changing antibiotic resistance patterns for Staphylococcus aureus surgical site infections

scientific article published on 20 February 2019

Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains in pediatric intensive care unit.

scientific article published in April 2010

Comparison of an Automated Plate Assessment System (APAS Independence) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Manual Plate Reading of Methicillin-Resistant and Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus CHROMagar Surveillance Cultures

scientific article published in 2021

Comparison of nylon-flocked swab and cellulose sponge methods for carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae and gram-negative organism recovery from high-touch surfaces in patient rooms

scientific article published on 28 August 2018

Daptomycin therapy failure in an adolescent with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia.

scientific article published on May 2009

Does the piperacillin minimum inhibitory concentration for Pseudomonas aeruginosa influence clinical outcomes of children with pseudomonal bacteremia?

scientific article published on 13 June 2012

Effect of Treating Parents Colonized With Staphylococcus aureus on Transmission to Neonates in the Intensive Care Unit: A Randomized Clinical Trial

scientific article published on 30 December 2019

Epidemiology and risk factors for recurrent Staphylococcus aureus colonization following active surveillance and decolonization in the NICU

scientific article published on 18 September 2018

Evaluation of Multiple Methods for Detection of Gastrointestinal Colonization of Carbapenem-Resistant Organisms from Rectal Swabs.

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Evaluation of the Direct MacConkey Method for Identification of Carbapenem-Resistant Gram-Negative Organisms from Rectal Swabs: Reevaluating Zone Diameter Cutoffs

scientific article published on 22 November 2019

Fatal infection caused by Cupriavidus gilardii in a child with aplastic anemia

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From canines to humans: Clinical importance of Staphylococcus pseudintermedius

High prevalence of reduced chlorhexidine susceptibility in organisms causing central line-associated bloodstream infections

scientific article published on 23 July 2014

Impact of colonization pressure and strain type on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission in children.

scientific article published on 13 August 2013

Increasing Clindamycin and Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole Resistance in Pediatric Staphylococcus aureus Infections

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Low prevalence of mupirocin resistance among hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates in a neonatal intensive care unit with an active surveillance cultures and decolonization program.

scientific article published on February 2015

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization and risk of subsequent infection in critically ill children: importance of preventing nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission

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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus transmission and infections in a neonatal intensive care unit despite active surveillance cultures and decolonization: challenges for infection prevention.

scientific article published on April 2014

Multistate Outbreak of an Emerging Burkholderia cepacia Complex Strain Associated With Contaminated Oral Liquid Docusate Sodium

scientific article published in February 2018

Point-Counterpoint: What's in a Name? Clinical Microbiology Laboratories Should Use Nomenclature Based on Current Taxonomy

scientific article published in 2023

Point-of-Care Platform for Rapid Multiplexed Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Variants and Respiratory Pathogens

scientific article published on 07 January 2022

Prescriber Behavior in Clostridioides difficile Testing: A 3-Hospital Diagnostic Stewardship Intervention

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Prescribers' knowledge, attitudes and perceptions about blood culturing practices for adult hospitalized patients: a call for action

scientific article published on 18 September 2018

Role of decolonization in a comprehensive strategy to reduce methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in the neonatal intensive care unit: an observational cohort study

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The Prevalence and Molecular Epidemiology of Multidrug-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Colonization in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

scientific article published on 9 February 2016

The Use of a Combination Antibiogram to Assist with the Selection of Appropriate Antimicrobial Therapy for Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae Infections.

scientific article published on 27 August 2015

The impact of chlorhexidine gluconate bathing on skin bacterial burden of neonates admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

scientific article published on 20 September 2018

To wait or not to wait: Optimal time interval between the first and second blood-culture sets to maximize blood-culture yield

Treating Parents to Reduce NICU Transmission of Staphylococcus aureus (TREAT PARENTS) trial: protocol of a multisite randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

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Trends in pediatric community-onset antibiotic susceptibilities over a five-year period in a multihospital health system

Unrecognized burden of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus carriage in the pediatric intensive care unit

scientific article published in December 2008

Update on Accepted Novel Bacterial Isolates Derived from Human Clinical Specimens and Taxonomic Revisions Published in 2020 and 2021

scientific article published in 2023

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