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The burden of colonization and infection by carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in the neuro-rehabilitation setting: a prospective six-year experience.

Sara TedeschiFilippo TrapaniAnnalisa LiveraniFabio TumiettoFrancesco CristiniSalvatore PignanelliAndrea BerlingeriJacopo BonavitaGian Piero BelloniMichele BartolettiMaddalena GiannellaRoberto PederziniPierluigi Viale
Published in: Infection control and hospital epidemiology (2019)
We describe the high burden of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) colonization and infection in a neuro-rehabilitation hospital in Italy over a 6-year period. Overall, 9.3% of patients were found to be CPE carriers on admission; the rates of CPE in-hospital acquisition and CPE-BSI were 9.2 and 2.9 cases per 10,000 patient days, respectively.
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