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   Pervasive antibiotic misuse in the Cambodian community: antibiotic-seeking behaviour with unrestricted access

   Chhorvoin Om, Frances Daily, Erika Vlieghe, James C. McLaughlin and Mary-Louise McLaws

   Published on: 24 March 2017
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   Retrospective report of antimicrobial susceptibility observed in bacterial pathogens isolated from ocular samples at Mount Sinai Hospital, 2010 to 2015

   Marko Oydanich, Tanis C. Dingle, Camille L. Hamula, Claudia Ghisa and Penny Asbell

   Published on: 20 March 2017
5. SHORT REPORT

   Screening for fecal carriage of MCR-producing Enterobacteriaceae in healthy humans and primary care patients

   Katrin Zurfluh, Roger Stephan, Andreas Widmer, Laurent Poirel, Patrice Nordmann, Hans-Jakob Nüesch, Herbert Hächler and Magdalena Nüesch-Inderbinen

   Published on: 14 March 2017
6. RESEARCH

   Candidemia in a major regional tertiary referral hospital – epidemiology, practice patterns and outcomes

   Jocelyn Qi-Min Teo, Samuel Rocky Candra, Shannon Jing-Yi Lee, Shannon Yu-Hng Chia, Hui Leck, Ai-Ling Tan, Hui-Peng Neo, Kenneth Wei-Liang Leow, Yiying Cai, Rachel Pui-Lai Ee, Tze-Peng Lim, Winnie Lee and Andrea Lay-Hoon Kwa

   Published on: 11 March 2017
7. MEETING ABSTRACTS

   Abstracts from the 8th International Congress of the Asia Pacific Society of Infection Control (APSIC)

   Nantanit Sutthiruk, Mari Botti, Julie Considine, Andrea Driscoll, Ana Hutchinson, Kumthorn Malathum, Cucunawangsih Cucunawangsih, Veronica Wiwing, Vivien Puspitasari, Rathina Kumar Shanmugakani, Yukihiro Akeda, Takuya Kodera, Pitak Santanirand, Kazunori Tomono, Takayuki Yamanaka, Hiroyuki Moriuchi…

   Published on: 22 February 2017

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Reflections on Infection Prevention and Control

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• Monoclonal antibodies, the brown stuff, and preventing recurrent C. difficile infection

  Published on: 22 March 2017

• Need to save some money? Then universal admission screening for CPE is for you!

  Published on: 16 March 2017

• Fluoroquinolone use and C. difficile infections: The English miracle not yet explained?

  Published on: 13 March 2017

Editor Profile

Andreas Voss, Editor-in-Chief

Dr Voss is a professor of Infection Control at the Radboud University Medical Centre, and clinical microbiologist and head infection control at Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He holds an MD and PhD from the Faculty of Medical Science of the Technical University in Munich, was a Fellow-Associate at the University of Iowa Clinics and Hospitals, and holds another PhD from the Radboud University Medical Centre.

Professor Voss served on many, professional boards (ESCMID, SHEA, ISC, ICAN, NVMM), is a former program director of ECCMID, a member of the WHO core-group on hand hygiene, and Co-chair of the International Conference on Prevention and Infection Control (ICPIC). His main work interests are the prevention and epidemiology of health-care associated infections, hand hygiene, and behavioural change. 

Christina Vandenbroucke-Grauls, Editor-in-Chief

 Dr Vandenbroucke-Grauls is professor of Medical Microbiology at the VU University (Amsterdam), The Netherlands. She holds an MD from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and a PhD from the Utrecht University (Utrecht, The Netherlands). She also holds a degree in Epidemiology (PhD equivalent) from the Dutch Society for Epidemiology. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP).

Professor Vandenbroucke-Grauls is head of Department of Medical Microbiology & Infection Control at the VU University Medical Center. For over ten years she served as chair of the Dutch Working Party on Infection Control. She also served in several professional boards and national and international scientific committees. Her main work interest is in infection control and antimicrobial resistant pathogens (MRSA and ESBL- and carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in particular).