Healthcare-Associated Infections in Europe: Surveillance, Antimicrobial Resistance and Prevention
A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2027 | Viewed by 167
Editors
2. Infection Control Department, “Grigore Alexandrescu” Clinical Emergency Hospital for Children, Bucharest, Romania
Interests: surveillance; HAIs; antimicrobial resistance; infection control; vaccine preventable diseases
2. Infection Control Department, National Institute for Infectious Diseases “Prof. Dr. Matei Balș”, Bucharest, Romania
Interests: surveillance; HAIs; vaccine preventable diseases; influenza
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are current worldwide challenges for the healthcare systems, impacting morbidity, mortality, quality of life, and costs for the healthcare system and for patients.
Over 3.5 million new cases of HAIs with over 90,000 deaths occur every year in the European region, 71% of infections with multidrug-resistant pathogens being HAIs, according to European Centre for Diseases Control estimates.
A significant proportion of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) can be prevented by infection prevention and control (IPC) programs. Surveillance is an essential component of these programs, providing valuable information for prevention and control measures. Hand hygiene is an effective IPC intervention for preventing HAIs and multidrug-resistant pathogen transmission in healthcare settings.
AMR is a growing threat to human health. Multidrug-resistant pathogens from the WHO’s critical group classification, such as carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (e.g., Klebsiella pneumoniae) are often detected in HAI cases and outbreaks in hospitals.
Implementing AMR surveillance and an antibiotic stewardship program within the hospital along with a national action plan for AMR are necessary interventions to address this threat.
This Special Issue launched by Pathogens aims to improve the level of knowledge in the field of surveillance, prevention, and control of HAIs and AMR in the region and to reflect the challenges in these important areas of public health.
I would like to invite colleagues to submit their manuscripts in this field, in the form of original research, review articles, and short communications. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs);
- Antimicrobial resistance;
- Antimicrobial stewardship;
- Multidrug-resistant microorganisms;
- Clostridioides difficile;
- Infection surveillance, prevention and control;
- Hand hygiene.
Dr. Maria Dorina Crǎciun
Dr. Daniela Piţigoi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- healthcare-associated infections (HAI)
- hand hygiene
- antimicrobial resistance
- Clostridioides difficile
- infection surveillance and control
- multidrug-resistant microorganisms
- antibiotic consumption
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