Long-term Follow-up of Preterm Infants Having Been Colonized With Extended Spectrum Beta-lactamase–producing Enterobacterales Over the First 6 Years of Life. Issue 9 (September 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Eberhart, Martin; Grisold, Andrea; Lavorato, Michela; Resch, Elisabeth; Trobisch, Andreas; Resch, Bernhard
• Is Part Of: Pediatric infectious disease journal. Volume 40:Issue 9(2021)
• Publication Date: 2021-09
• Subjects: enterobacterales -- extended spectrum beta-lactamase -- follow-up -- preterm infants; Communicable diseases in children -- Periodicals; Infection in children -- Periodicals; 618.929
• DOI: 10.1097/INF.0000000000003212
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0891-3668

Abstract

Abstract : We performed a retrospective case-control cohort study following 146 preterm infants (⩽32 weeks of gestation) who had been colonized with extended spectrum beta-lactamase producing Enterobacterales and compared them with 1:1 matched controls regarding rates of hospitalizations and outpatient visits because of infectious and gastrointestinal diseases and developmental impairment up to school age. Preterm infants with extended spectrum beta-lactamase producing Enterobacterales colonization did have neither higher rates of gastrointestinal or infectious diseases nor higher rates of developmental impairments up to the age of 6 years.