Implementing a multi-faceted framework for proprietorship of hand hygiene compliance in a network of South African hospitals: leveraging the Ubuntu philosophy

Can educational speech intervention improve visitors’hand hygiene compliance?

Hand antisepsis without decreasing efficacy by shortening the rub-in time of alcohol-based handrubs to 15 seconds

Hand hygiene compliance of patients’ family members in India: importance of educating the unofficial ‘fourth category’ of healthcare personnel

Hand rubbing with sprayed alcohol-based hand rub: an alternative method for effective hand hygiene

One size does not fit all: the effectiveness of messaging for hand hygiene compliance by profession in a tertiary hospital

S. Salmon*, M.Y. Phua, D. Fisher
*National University Hospital, Singapore
Journal of Hospital Infection (2020) 104, 435-439

Risk factors for Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC) gene acquisition and clinical outcomes across multiple bacterial species

A.J. Mathers^*, K. Vegesana, I. German-Mesner, J. Ainsworth, A. Pannone, D.W. Crook, C.D. Sifri, A. Sheppard, N. Stoesser, T. Peto, A.S. Walker, D.W. Eyre
^*University of Virginia Health System, USA

Journal of Hospital Infection (2020) 104, 456-468

Prevalence, genetic diversity of and factors associated with ESBL-producing Enterobacterales carriage in residents of French nursing homes

M. Broussier, H. Gbaguidi-Haoré, F. Rachidi-Berjamy, X. Bertrand, C. Slekovec
^*Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire, France

Journal of Hospital Infection (2020) 104, 469-475

Outbreak of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae associated with a contaminated water dispenser and sink drains in the cardiology units of a Korean hospital
 
J. Jung^* H-S. Choi, J-Y. Lee, S.H. Ryu, S-K. Kim, M.J. Hong, S.H. Kwak, H.J. Kim, M-S. Lee, H. Sung, M-N. Kim, S-H. Kim
^*University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Republic of Korea
 
Journal of Hospital Infection (2020) 104, 476-483

Whole-genome sequencing identifies highly related Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains in multiple washbasin U-bends at several locations in one hospital: evidence for trafficking of potential pathogens via wastewater pipes

E.M. Moloney^*, E.C. Deasy, J.S. Swan, G.I. Brennan, M.J. O’Donnell, D.C. Coleman
^*Dublin Dental University Hospital, University of Dublin, Ireland

Journal of Hospital Infection (2020) 104, 484-491