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Inclusion of real-time hand hygiene observation and feedback in a multimodal hand hygiene improvement strategy in low-resource settings

Lenglet AD, van Deursen B, Viana R, Abubakar N, Hoare S,  et al.
2019-08-02 • Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
2019-08-02 • Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
IMPORTANCE
Hand hygiene adherence monitoring and feedback can reduce health care-acquired infections in hospitals. Few low-cost hand hygiene adherence monitoring tools exist in low-r...
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High prevalence of ESBL-positive bacteria in an obstetrics emergency hospital and neonatal care unit—Haiti, 2016

Chaintarli K, Lenglet AD, Beauzile BD, Senat-Delva R, Mabou MM,  et al.
2018-08-30 • Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
2018-08-30 • Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
Patient colonization with extended-spectrum β-lactamase–producing gram-negative bacteria (ESBL-GNB) could serve as a
potential reservoir for transmission of multidrug-resistant (MDR...
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Antibiotic resistance in conflict settings: lessons learned in the Middle East

Kanapathipillai R, Malou N, Hopman J, Bowman C, Yousef N,  et al.
2019-04-10 • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
2019-04-10 • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has designed context-adapted antibiotic resistance (ABR) responses in countries across the Middle East. There, some health systems have been severely damag...
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Early warning for healthcare acquired infections in neonatal care units in a low-resource setting using routinely collected hospital data: The experience from Haiti, 2014–2018

Lenglet AD, Contigiani O, Ariti C, Evens E, Charles K,  et al.
2022-06-23 • PLOS One
2022-06-23 • PLOS One
In low-resource settings, detection of healthcare-acquired outbreaks in neonatal units relies on astute clinical staff to observe unusual morbidity or mortality from sepsis as microbiolo...
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Commentary

Managing COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries

Hopman J, Allegranzi B, Mehta S
2020-03-16 • JAMA
2020-03-16 • JAMA
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A nosocomial outbreak of clinical sepsis in a neonatal care unit (NCU) in Port-Au-Prince Haiti, July 2014 - September 2015

Lenglet AD, Faniyan O, Hopman J
2018-03-21 • PLoS Currents
2018-03-21 • PLoS Currents
INTRODUCTION
Between July 2014 and September 2015, a neonatal care unit (NCU) in Port Au Prince, Haiti, experienced an outbreak of sepsis, most probably due to nosocomial transmissio...
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Multi-drug resistance and high mortality associated with community-acquired bloodstream infections in children in conflict-affected northwest Nigeria

Chukwumeze F, Lenglet AD, Olubiyo R, Lawal AM, Oluyide B,  et al.
2021-10-21 • Scientific Reports
2021-10-21 • Scientific Reports
Pediatric community-acquired bloodstream infections (CA-BSIs) in sub Saharan African humanitarian contexts are rarely documented. Effective treatment of these infections is additionally ...
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Rectal screening displays high negative predictive value for bloodstream infection with (ESBL-producing) Gram-negative bacteria in neonates with suspected sepsis in a low-resource setting neonatal care unit

Lenglet AD, Schuurmans J, Ariti C, Borgundvaag E, Charles K,  et al.
2020-12-01 • Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance
2020-12-01 • Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance
OBJECTIVES
We analysed the concordance of rectal swab isolates and blood culture for Gram-negative bacteria (GNB) isolates in neonates with a suspicion of neonatal sepsis admitted to...