Surgical site infections in Benin: what about hand hygiene practices and antibiotic resistance?
(2022)
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- Surgical site infections are one of the most common healthcare associated infections and contribute significantly to increase the patient's morbidity, healthcare costs and antibiotic resistance. In Benin, due mainly to the irrational prescription of antibiotics, and poor infection prevention and control programs, we observed a scarcity of local data regarding the rates of SSIs and the frequency of multi drug bacteria isolated (MDR). Almost all Gram negative bacteria isolated on pus samples were resistant to at least five classes of antibiotics. Moreover, healthcare workers missed two opportunities out of three to apply hand hygiene and when HH was applied, technique and duration were not appropriate. Our interventions focused on implementation of world health organization multimodal strategy with high availability of alcohol-based hand rub solution in hospitals. However, future work is needed to largely describe the molecular epidemiology of MDR.
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Yehouenou, C. (2022). Surgical site infections in Benin: what about hand hygiene practices and antibiotic resistance? https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/25582