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Likelihood of persistent carriage of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii on readmission in previously identified carriers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2019

Amir Nutman Open the ORCID record for Amir Nutman [Opens in a new window] ,
Anat Lerner ,
Noga Fallach ,
David Schwartz  and
Yehuda Carmeli
Amir Nutman*
Affiliation:
Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel National Center for Infection Control and Antibiotic Resistance, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Anat Lerner
Affiliation:
National Center for Infection Control and Antibiotic Resistance, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Noga Fallach
Affiliation:
National Center for Infection Control and Antibiotic Resistance, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
David Schwartz
Affiliation:
National Center for Infection Control and Antibiotic Resistance, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Yehuda Carmeli
Affiliation:
Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel National Center for Infection Control and Antibiotic Resistance, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel-Aviv, Israel
*
Author for correspondence: Amir Nutman, E-mail: amirn@tlvmc.gov.il
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Abstract

Patients with carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii-positive clinical cultures during a prior hospitalization were screened using high sensitivity methods upon first readmission. Of 38 patients, 31.6% screened positive; 42% screened positive within 2 months from discharge, and 14% screened positive more than 5 months from discharge. Carriage was persistent up to 285 days.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 40 , Issue 10 , October 2019 , pp. 1188 - 1190
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© 2019 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved. 

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