ArticleAntimicrobial resistance and infection control2023
Staphylococcus aureus surgical site infection rates in 5 European countries.
Article in Antimicrobial resistance and infection control, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03353532 (Staphylococcus Aureus Surgical Site Infection Multinational Epidemiology in Europe), which is not on this map. Cited by 7 papers.
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Staphylococcus Aureus Surgical Site Infection Multinational Epidemiology in Europe
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.
- Methicillin-ResistantMicroorganisms · 2026Review
- A cross-specialty, evidence-based Delphi consensus of a care bundle to reduce surgical site infections.International journal of surgery (London, England) · 2026Article
- Superficial incisional surgical site infections experimentally induced by Staphylococcus aureus in mice: the effect of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus containing dressing.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2025Article
- Antimicrobial Performance of a Novel Drug-Eluting Bioenvelope.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Silver-Treated Sutures for the Prevention of Biofilm-Associated Surgical Site Infections.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Liposome-loaded phage cocktail: a promising therapeutic option against postsurgical wound infections - a critical appraisal.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2024Article
- Individual and institutional predisposing factors of MRSA surgical site infection and outcomes-a retrospective case-control-study in 14 European high-volume surgical centres.JAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2024Article
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34 authors at 17 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
objectiveTo determine the overall and procedure-specific incidence of surgical site infections (SSI) caused by Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) as well as risk factors for such across all surgical disciplines in Europe.
methodsThis is a retrospective cohort of patients with surgical procedures performed at 14 European centres in 2016, with a nested case-control analysis. S. aureus SSI were identified by a semi-automated crossmatching bacteriological and electronic health record data. Within each surgical procedure, cases and controls were matched using optimal propensity score matching.
resultsA total of 764 of 178 902 patients had S. aureus SSI (0.4%), with 86.0% of these caused by methicillin susceptible and 14% by resistant pathogens. Mean S. aureus SSI incidence was similar for all surgical specialties, while varying by procedure.
conclusionsThis large procedure-independent study of S. aureus SSI proves a low overall infection rate of 0.4% in this cohort. It provides proof of principle for a semi-automated approach to utilize big data in epidemiological studies of healthcare-associated infections. Trials registration The study was registered at clinicaltrials.gov under NCT03353532 (11/2017).
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