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Active surveillance for multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria in the intensive care unit

Overview of attention for article published in Pathology, October 2015
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Title
Active surveillance for multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria in the intensive care unit
Published in
Pathology, October 2015
DOI 10.1097/pat.0000000000000302
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Iain J. Abbott, Adam W.J. Jenney, Denis W. Spelman, David V. Pilcher, Hanna E. Sidjabat, Leisha J. Richardson, David L. Paterson, Anton Y. Peleg

Abstract

A short-term program of performing serial active screening cultures (ASC) in the intensive care unit was instituted to establish a method for the detection of antibiotic-resistant Gram-negative bacteria (GNB) and the local rates of colonisation. Of all submitted ASC, 25.9% (30/116 collected swabs) isolated an antibiotic-resistant GNB. ChromID ESBL agar (bioMérieux, France) identified the majority of these organisms, with the additional antibiotic-impregnated media [MacConkey agar (MCA) with ciprofloxacin, MCA with gentamicin and MCA with ceftazidime] adding limited benefit. Compared to swabs performed on admission, 37.8% (14/37) of patients cultured a new antibiotic-resistant isolate on discharge. Serial screening in intensive care has the ability to identify patients with unrecognised colonisation with antibiotic-resistant GNB; however, the increase in the laboratory workload and logistical challenges in the collection of the surveillance swabs may limit this program's expansion.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Colombia 1 3%
Unknown 34 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 6 17%
Student > Master 5 14%
Researcher 4 11%
Student > Postgraduate 3 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 6%
Other 9 26%
Unknown 6 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 26%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 20%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 17%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 6%
Unspecified 1 3%
Other 3 9%
Unknown 7 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 July 2016.
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#8,261,756
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Pathology
#282
of 1,527 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#94,209
of 286,876 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Pathology
#3
of 23 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,373,627 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 66th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,527 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 3.7. This one has done well, scoring higher than 81% of its peers.
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