The sink as a potential source of transmission of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in the intensive care unit

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• 作者：Deborah De Geyter ; Lieve Blommaert…
• 关键词：Carbapenemase ; producing Enterobacteriaceae ; Hospital sinks ; Outbreak ; Intensive care unit ; Citrobacter freundii OXA ; 48 ; Transmission
• 刊名：Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：6
• 期：1
• 全文大小：542KB
• 刊物主题：Medical Microbiology; Drug Resistance; Infectious Diseases;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：2047-2994
• 卷排序：6

文摘

BackgroundCarbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) are emerging pathogens that represent a major public health threat. In the University Hospital of Brussels, the incidence of new patients with CPE rose from 1 case in 2010 to 35 cases in 2015. Between January and August 2015, five patients became infected/colonized with CPE during their stay in the same room in the intensive care unit (ICU). Since the time period between those patients was relatively short and the strains belonged to different species with different antibiograms and mechanisms of resistance, the hypothesis was that the environment could be a possible source of transmission.