The impact of enhanced screening for carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales in an acute care hospital in South Korea.
Sun Hee ParkYunmi YiWoosuck SuhSeul Ki JiEunhee HanSoyoung ShinPublished in: Antimicrobial resistance and infection control (2023)
The enhanced screening program enabled us to identify previously unrecognized CPE patients in a rapid manner and curtailed a hospital-wide CPE outbreak. As CPE prevalence increases, risk factors for CPE colonization can broaden, and hospital prevention strategies should be tailored to the changing local CPE epidemiology.