Felicity Fitzgerald, MBBS, MSc, MRCPCH, PhD, Department of Infectious Disease, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Julia Bielicki, MD, PhD, University Children's Hospital Basel, Switzerland
Angela Dramowski, PhD, MBChB, FCPAED, MMed (PAED), Cert Paed ID, DCH, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Image credit: © Brocreative / stock.adobe.com
Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control invites participating authors to submit to our Collection on ‘Preventing infection in neonatal care units’. Newborns admitted to neonatal care units represent some of the most vulnerable patients globally and neonatal units are increasingly recognized as reservoirs for multidrug-resistant bacteria globally. To curb the further emergence and associated burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), clinicians must be able to rely on evidence-based yet context-appropriate pragmatic approaches to care and infection prevention and control (IPC). For this special issue on preventing infection in low- and high-resource neonatal care units, we welcome submissions of reviews, opinion pieces and original research on the following topics:
• Challenges of and opportunities to optimise IPC in neonatal care (infant, caregivers, clinicians and the environment)
• Evaluations of neonatal-specific non-traditional IPC measures e.g., Kangaroo Care or probiotics
• The role of standard IPC measures in the neonatal unit e.g., device bundles or hand hygiene
• Innovative approaches to neonatal HAI surveillance and outbreak detection
• Technological responses to IPC-related challenges around unit equipment
• Unique IPC considerations in low resource setting neonatal units
• Social science approaches to the IPC implementation gap in neonatal care.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) complicates treatment of healthcare-associated infections, causing high morbidity and mortality, especially among low-birth-weight and cr...
Klebsiella variicola has been implicated in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) outbreaks previously and can be misidentified as Klebsiella pneumoniae. An increased incidence of K. pneumoniae bacteremia on the NI...
This Collection welcomes submission of reviews, opinion pieces, and original research. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal.
Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. Please, select the appropriate Collection title “Preventing infection in neonatal care units" under the “Details” tab during the submission stage.
Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.
The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer-review process. The peer-review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.