ArticleInfection and drug resistance2018
Ambulance vehicles as a source of multidrug-resistant infections: a multicenter study in Assiut City, Egypt.
Article in Infection and drug resistance, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 53 citations in OpenAlex.
- Prevalence of colistin resistance in clinical isolates ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2024Pooled it
- Bacterial Profiling and Antibiotic Resistance Pattern of Uropathogens Isolated From Adolescent Girls With Bacteriuria: A Cross-Sectional Study.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Bacterial Contaminants in Ambulances from a Tertiary Care Hospital as Potential Threats to Patients and Medical Staff in Al-Qassim Region, Saudi Arabia-Effect of Decontamination.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Diagnostic Innovations to Combat Antibiotic Resistance in Critical Care: Tools for Targeted Therapy and Stewardship.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- HypervirulentPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Prevalence of Antibiotic Resistance Determinants in Carbapenem-ResistantInternational journal of molecular and cellular medicine · 2025Article
- Occurrence and Phenotypic Characteristics of Methicillin-ResistantJournal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Antimicrobial Peptides: The Game-Changer in the Epic Battle Against Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Quorum Sensing Inhibitors: An Alternative Strategy to Win the Battle against Multidrug-Resistant (MDR) Bacteria.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Phage Therapy, a Salvage Treatment for Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria Causing Infective Endocarditis.Biomedicines · 2023Review
- Tryptone-stabilized silver nanoparticles' potential to mitigate planktonic and biofilm growth forms of Serratia marcescens.Journal of biological inorganic chemistry : JBIC : a publication of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry · 2023Article
- Nanotechnology as a Promising Approach to Combat Multidrug Resistant Bacteria: A Comprehensive Review and Future Perspectives.Biomedicines · 2023Review
- Prevalence and Molecular Characteristics of Polymyxin-ResistantAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Bacteria Associated with Healthcare-Associated Infections on Environmental Samples Obtained from Two Fire Departments.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- In Vitro Antimicrobial Activity of Medicinal Plant Extracts against Some Bacterial Pathogens Isolated from Raw and Processed Meat.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Bacteriological Surveillance of Ambulance Vehicles from a Tertiary Care Hospital of North India.Journal of laboratory physicians · 2021Article
- Antibiofilm and antivirulence potential of silver nanoparticles against multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Study on Demethoxycurcumin as a Promising Approach to Reverse Methicillin-Resistance ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- Mobilized colistin resistance (mcr) genes from 1 to 10: a comprehensive review.Molecular biology reports · 2021Review
- Emergence of Nosocomial Pneumonia Caused by Colistin-ResistantAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundAmbulances may represent a potential source of infection to patients, patients' relatives, and paramedical staffs. In this study, we analyzed the extent of bacterial contamination in ambulance vehicles and measured the degree of antimicrobial resistance among isolated pathogens. MATERIALS AND
methodsTwenty-five vehicles were included and 16 sampling points were swabbed in each vehicle. Then the swabs were immediately transferred to the laboratory to identify bacterial contaminants utilizing standard microbiological procedures and API
resultsA total of 400 samples were collected, 589 bacteria were isolated and 286 (48.6%) of the isolates were potentially pathogenic. The highest contamination rate with pathogenic bacteria was detected in suction devices (75.8%) and stethoscopes (67.7%). Staphylococci were the most frequently detected microorganisms (n=184) followed by
conclusionOur study provides evidence that ambulances represent a source of prehospital multidrug-resistant infections.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.