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Use of Active Surveillance Cultures to Detect Asymptomatic Colonization With Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in Intensive Care Unit Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David Calfee  and
Stephen G. Jenkins
David Calfee*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
Stephen G. Jenkins
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York
*
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1151, New York, NY 10029 (david.calfee@mountsinai.org)
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Abstract

Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae is emerging as a significant healthcare-associated pathogen. Clinical cultures detect only a fraction of the colonized population, and patients with asymptomatic colonization are at risk of invasive infection. Additional study of the impact of detection of asymptomatic colonization on subsequent infection and transmission is needed.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 29 , Issue 10 , October 2008 , pp. 966 - 968
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2008

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