Sanitary installations and wastewater plumbing as reservoir for the long-term circulation and transmission of carbapenemase producing Citrobacter freundii clones in a hospital setting

BACKGROUND: Accumulating evidence shows a role of the hospital wastewater system in the spread of multidrug-resistant organisms, such as carbapenemase producing Enterobacterales (CPE). Several sequential outbreaks of CPE on the geriatric ward of the Ghent University hospital have led to an outbreak...

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Autores principales: Hamerlinck, Hannelore, Aerssens, Annelies, Boelens, Jerina, Dehaene, Andrea, McMahon, Michael, Messiaen, Anne-Sophie, Vandendriessche, Stien, Velghe, Anja, Leroux-Roels, Isabel, Verhasselt, Bruno
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10280848/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37337245
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-023-01261-9

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