Colonization sites in carriers of ESBL-producing Gram-negative bacteria.
Joffrey van PrehnAnna M KaiserSuzanne D van der WerffRosa van MansfeldChristina M J E Vandenbroucke-GraulsPublished in: Antimicrobial resistance and infection control (2018)
Rectal colonization with ESBL-GNB was detected in 86% of ESBL-GNB carriers. However, in 14% of ESBL-GNB carriers we did not detect rectal colonization. Therefore, samples taken for follow-up of colonization with multi-drug resistant Gram-negative bacteria (MDR-GNB) should ideally also include samples from the site where the MDR-GNB was initially found.