Epidemiologic and Microbiologic Characteristics of Hospitalized Patients Co-colonized With Multiple Species of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae in the United States. (27th August 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Adediran, Timileyin; Harris, Anthony D; Johnson, J Kristie; Calfee, David P; Miller, Loren G; Nguyen, M Hong; Morgan, Daniel J; Goodman, Katherine E; Hitchcock, Stephanie; Pineles, Lisa; O'Hara, Lyndsay M
• Is Part Of: Open forum infectious diseases. Volume 7:Number 10(2020)
• Publication Date: 2020-08-27
• Subjects: co-colonization -- CRE; Communicable diseases -- Periodicals; Medical microbiology -- Periodicals; Infection -- Periodicals; 616.9
• DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa386
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2328-8957

Abstract

Abstract: We describe the epidemiologic and microbiologic characteristics of patients co-colonized with different species of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) from 5 hospitals in 4 states. Twenty-eight of 313 patients (8.9%) were co-colonized with at least 2 different CRE species. Different species within the same patient showed identical mechanism resistance in 18/28 (64%) cases.