Juliëtte A. Severin

The paper identifies two closely-related blaVIM-2-containing plasmids in non-aeruginosa Pseudomonas spp. and P. aeruginosa during a hospital outbreak, highlighting their role in carbapenem resistance transmission.

This paper develops a highly-sensitive method to detect CRPA carriage in humans using optimized enrichment broths and selective agar plates, suitable for low-resource settings.

This study tests the stability of four carbapenem antibiotics in discs under unfavorable storage conditions and finds imipenem discs from Oxoid and Becton Dickinson to be the most stable.

This study compares microbial safety of breathing systems used for 7 days versus 24 hours in operating rooms, finding no significant increase in microbial positivity and reduced resource use with weekly replacement.