Published in Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol on September 01, 2008
A systematic review of risk factors associated with surgical site infections among surgical patients. PLoS One (2013) 1.60
Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization and subsequent infection in intensive care unit patients: does methicillin resistance matter? Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2010) 1.34
Topical fluoroquinolone use as a risk factor for in vitro fluoroquinolone resistance in ocular cultures. Arch Ophthalmol (2011) 1.11
Is nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus the main acquisition pathway for surgical-site infection in orthopaedic surgery? Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis (2010) 1.02
Preventing deep wound infection after coronary artery bypass grafting: a review. Tex Heart Inst J (2013) 0.95
Deep sternal wound infection after cardiac surgery: Evidences and controversies. World J Crit Care Med (2015) 0.83
Focus on the prophylaxis, epidemiology and therapy of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus surgical site infections and a position paper on associated risk factors: the perspective of an Italian group of surgeons. World J Emerg Surg (2016) 0.78
Prevalence dependent calibration of a predictive model for nasal carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. BMC Infect Dis (2013) 0.77
Violation of prophylactic vancomycin administration timing is a potential risk factor for rate of surgical site infections in cardiac surgery patients: a prospective cohort study. BMC Cardiovasc Disord (2017) 0.75
De novo bacterial genome sequencing: millions of very short reads assembled on a desktop computer. Genome Res (2008) 14.90
Universal screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at hospital admission and nosocomial infection in surgical patients. JAMA (2008) 7.60
Burden of endemic health-care-associated infection in developing countries: systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet (2010) 6.16
Limited efficacy of alcohol-based hand gels. Lancet (2002) 4.65
Inappropriate initial antimicrobial therapy and its effect on survival in a clinical trial of immunomodulating therapy for severe sepsis. Am J Med (2003) 4.56
Metagenomic study of the oral microbiota by Illumina high-throughput sequencing. J Microbiol Methods (2009) 4.32
Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings: recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HICPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2002) 4.26
Comparison of two matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry methods with conventional phenotypic identification for routine identification of bacteria to the species level. J Clin Microbiol (2010) 4.14
Failures in clinical treatment of Staphylococcus aureus Infection with daptomycin are associated with alterations in surface charge, membrane phospholipid asymmetry, and drug binding. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (2007) 3.54
Epidemiology of Candida species infections in critically ill non-immunosuppressed patients. Lancet Infect Dis (2003) 3.33
Prevention of severe Candida infections in nonneutropenic, high-risk, critically ill patients: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in patients treated by selective digestive decontamination. Intensive Care Med (2002) 3.33
Rapid detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus directly from sterile or nonsterile clinical samples by a new molecular assay. J Clin Microbiol (2003) 3.27
Epidemiology of candidemia in Swiss tertiary care hospitals: secular trends, 1991-2000. Clin Infect Dis (2004) 3.25
Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Lancet Infect Dis (2005) 3.18
Micafungin versus liposomal amphotericin B for candidaemia and invasive candidosis: a phase III randomised double-blind trial. Lancet (2007) 3.11
Ready for a world without antibiotics? The Pensières Antibiotic Resistance Call to Action. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control (2012) 3.02
Developed-developing country partnerships: benefits to developed countries? Global Health (2012) 2.80
Histone deacetylase inhibitors impair innate immune responses to Toll-like receptor agonists and to infection. Blood (2010) 2.69
Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health-Care Settings. Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee and the HIPAC/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force. Am J Infect Control (2002) 2.68
Patient participation: current knowledge and applicability to patient safety. Mayo Clin Proc (2010) 2.66
Human colon cancer epithelial cells harbour active HEDGEHOG-GLI signalling that is essential for tumour growth, recurrence, metastasis and stem cell survival and expansion. EMBO Mol Med (2009) 2.60
Society's failure to protect a precious resource: antibiotics. Lancet (2011) 2.51
Responses of gut microbiota and glucose and lipid metabolism to prebiotics in genetic obese and diet-induced leptin-resistant mice. Diabetes (2011) 2.46
The effect of workload on infection risk in critically ill patients. Crit Care Med (2007) 2.42
Rapid Diagnosis of Infection in the Critically Ill, a Multicenter Study of Molecular Detection in Bloodstream Infections, Pneumonia, and Sterile Site Infections. Crit Care Med (2015) 2.37
Successful implementation of the World Health Organization hand hygiene improvement strategy in a referral hospital in Mali, Africa. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2010) 2.35
Mechanical bowel preparation for elective colorectal surgery: a meta-analysis. Arch Surg (2004) 2.32
Health-care-associated infection in Africa: a systematic review. Bull World Health Organ (2011) 2.18
Global implementation of WHO's multimodal strategy for improvement of hand hygiene: a quasi-experimental study. Lancet Infect Dis (2013) 2.15
Risk factors for survival after lung metastasectomy in colorectal cancer patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Ann Surg Oncol (2012) 2.13
Continuous preperitoneal infusion of ropivacaine provides effective analgesia and accelerates recovery after colorectal surgery: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. Anesthesiology (2007) 2.12
Increased expression of clumping factor and fibronectin-binding proteins by hemB mutants of Staphylococcus aureus expressing small colony variant phenotypes. Infect Immun (2002) 2.08
Use of PCR coupled with electrospray ionization mass spectrometry for rapid identification of bacterial and yeast bloodstream pathogens from blood culture bottles. J Clin Microbiol (2010) 2.06
Infection in breast implants. Lancet Infect Dis (2005) 2.06
The World Health Organization hand hygiene observation method. Am J Infect Control (2009) 2.01
Study of inter- and intra-individual variations in the salivary microbiota. BMC Genomics (2010) 2.01
Evaluation of three molecular assays for rapid identification of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. J Clin Microbiol (2007) 1.97
Interventional study to evaluate the impact of an alcohol-based hand gel in improving hand hygiene compliance. Pediatr Infect Dis J (2002) 1.92
Evaluating the probability of previously unknown carriage of MRSA at hospital admission. Am J Med (2006) 1.90
Does antibiotic selection impact patient outcome? Clin Infect Dis (2006) 1.88
Use of an automated multiple-locus, variable-number tandem repeat-based method for rapid and high-throughput genotyping of Staphylococcus aureus isolates. J Clin Microbiol (2005) 1.88
Water-immersion sigmoidoscopy to treat acute GI bleeding in the perioperative period after surgical colorectal anastomosis. Gastrointest Endosc (2010) 1.87
Evaluation of rapid screening and pre-emptive contact isolation for detecting and controlling methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in critical care: an interventional cohort study. Crit Care (2006) 1.86
Incidence, consequences, and risk factors for anastomotic dehiscence after colorectal surgery: a prospective monocentric study. Int J Colorectal Dis (2007) 1.81
A search for small noncoding RNAs in Staphylococcus aureus reveals a conserved sequence motif for regulation. Nucleic Acids Res (2009) 1.81
Regulation of mprF in daptomycin-nonsusceptible Staphylococcus aureus strains. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (2009) 1.76
A global view of Staphylococcus aureus whole genome expression upon internalization in human epithelial cells. BMC Genomics (2007) 1.73
Robustness of a loop-mediated isothermal amplification reaction for diagnostic applications. FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol (2011) 1.71
Tn125-related acquisition of blaNDM-like genes in Acinetobacter baumannii. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (2011) 1.71
Noma: an "infectious" disease of unknown aetiology. Lancet Infect Dis (2003) 1.70
CodY in Staphylococcus aureus: a regulatory link between metabolism and virulence gene expression. J Bacteriol (2009) 1.68
Foreign body infections due to Staphylococcus epidermidis. Ann Med (2009) 1.66
Trends in the treatment of orthopaedic prosthetic infections. J Antimicrob Chemother (2003) 1.64
A novel multiplex real-time PCR assay for rapid typing of major staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec elements. J Clin Microbiol (2004) 1.63
Impact of combined low-level mupirocin and genotypic chlorhexidine resistance on persistent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage after decolonization therapy: a case-control study. Clin Infect Dis (2011) 1.62
Alcohol-based handrub improves compliance with hand hygiene in intensive care units. Arch Intern Med (2002) 1.60
Ventilator-associated pneumonia: caveats for benchmarking. Intensive Care Med (2003) 1.60
Improved long-term outcome of surgery for advanced colorectal liver metastases: reasons and implications for management on the basis of a severity score. Ann Surg Oncol (2007) 1.60
Temporal effects of antibiotic use and hand rub consumption on the incidence of MRSA and Clostridium difficile. J Antimicrob Chemother (2008) 1.60
Isolation and characterization of biofilm formation-defective mutants of Staphylococcus aureus. Infect Immun (2006) 1.58
Patient empowerment and multimodal hand hygiene promotion: a win-win strategy. Am J Med Qual (2010) 1.58
Differentiating osteoarticular infections caused by Kingella kingae from those due to typical pathogens in young children. Pediatr Infect Dis J (2011) 1.55
Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Switzerland. Emerg Infect Dis (2005) 1.55
Molecular analysis of NDM-1-producing enterobacterial isolates from Geneva, Switzerland. J Antimicrob Chemother (2011) 1.54
Clinical and nonclinical health care workers faced a similar risk of acquiring 2009 pandemic H1N1 infection. Clin Infect Dis (2011) 1.54
Small risk of osteoarticular infections in children with asymptomatic oropharyngeal carriage of Kingella kingae. Pediatr Infect Dis J (2012) 1.54
Emergence of unusual bloodstream infections associated with pig-borne-like Staphylococcus aureus ST398 in France. Clin Infect Dis (2011) 1.53
Epidemiology and prognostic determinants of bloodstream infections in surgical intensive care. Arch Surg (2002) 1.51
Is throat screening necessary to detect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization in patients upon admission to an intensive care unit? J Clin Microbiol (2007) 1.51
Legionnaires' disease in a renal transplant recipient: nosocomial or home-grown? Transplantation (2002) 1.51
Use of benchmarking and public reporting for infection control in four high-income countries. Lancet Infect Dis (2011) 1.50
Infection and rejection in liver transplant patients: a 10-year Swiss single-centre experience. Swiss Med Wkly (2005) 1.48
Effect of a glucose impulse on the CcpA regulon in Staphylococcus aureus. BMC Microbiol (2009) 1.46
Cartography of methicillin-resistant S. aureus transcripts: detection, orientation and temporal expression during growth phase and stress conditions. PLoS One (2010) 1.46
Altered gut microbiota and endocannabinoid system tone in obese and diabetic leptin-resistant mice: impact on apelin regulation in adipose tissue. Front Microbiol (2011) 1.46
The stringent response of Staphylococcus aureus and its impact on survival after phagocytosis through the induction of intracellular PSMs expression. PLoS Pathog (2012) 1.46
Exploring glycopeptide-resistance in Staphylococcus aureus: a combined proteomics and transcriptomics approach for the identification of resistance-related markers. BMC Genomics (2006) 1.45
Absence of beneficial effect of acute normovolemic hemodilution combined with aprotinin on allogeneic blood transfusion requirements in cardiac surgery. Anesthesiology (2002) 1.44
De novo finished 2.8 Mbp Staphylococcus aureus genome assembly from 100 bp short and long range paired-end reads. Bioinformatics (2013) 1.43
Methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci in the community: high homology of SCCmec IVa between Staphylococcus epidermidis and major clones of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. J Infect Dis (2010) 1.43
Patented drug extension strategies on healthcare spending: a cost-evaluation analysis. PLoS Med (2013) 1.43
A generic approach for the design of whole-genome oligoarrays, validated for genomotyping, deletion mapping and gene expression analysis on Staphylococcus aureus. BMC Genomics (2005) 1.41
Comparative analysis of PCR-electrospray ionization/mass spectrometry (MS) and MALDI-TOF/MS for the identification of bacteria and yeast from positive blood culture bottles. Clin Chem (2011) 1.41
A recA-LexA-dependent pathway mediates ciprofloxacin-induced fibronectin binding in Staphylococcus aureus. J Biol Chem (2003) 1.41
A type III-like restriction endonuclease functions as a major barrier to horizontal gene transfer in clinical Staphylococcus aureus strains. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 1.40