The rise of carbapenem resistance in Europe: just the tip of the iceberg?

The European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net) collects data on carbapenem resistance from invasive bacterial infections. Increasing percentages of carbapenem resistance in K. pneumoniae isolates were reported from progressively more countries in Europe between 2005 and 2010....

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Autores principales: Magiorakos, Anna-Pelagia, Suetens, Carl, Monnet, Dominique L, Gagliotti, Carlo, Heuer, Ole E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3691711/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23410479
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2047-2994-2-6
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author Magiorakos, Anna-Pelagia
Suetens, Carl
Monnet, Dominique L
Gagliotti, Carlo
Heuer, Ole E
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Suetens, Carl
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description The European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net) collects data on carbapenem resistance from invasive bacterial infections. Increasing percentages of carbapenem resistance in K. pneumoniae isolates were reported from progressively more countries in Europe between 2005 and 2010. A trend analysis showed increasing trends for Greece, Cyprus, Hungary and Italy (p < 0.01). EARS-Net collects data on invasive bacterial isolates, which likely correspond to a fraction of the total number of infections. Increasing reports of community cases suggest that dissemination of carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae has penetrated into the community. Good surveillance and infection control measures are urgently needed to contain this spread.
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spelling pubmed-36917112013-06-26 The rise of carbapenem resistance in Europe: just the tip of the iceberg? Magiorakos, Anna-Pelagia Suetens, Carl Monnet, Dominique L Gagliotti, Carlo Heuer, Ole E Antimicrob Resist Infect Control Letter to the Editor The European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net) collects data on carbapenem resistance from invasive bacterial infections. Increasing percentages of carbapenem resistance in K. pneumoniae isolates were reported from progressively more countries in Europe between 2005 and 2010. A trend analysis showed increasing trends for Greece, Cyprus, Hungary and Italy (p < 0.01). EARS-Net collects data on invasive bacterial isolates, which likely correspond to a fraction of the total number of infections. Increasing reports of community cases suggest that dissemination of carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae has penetrated into the community. Good surveillance and infection control measures are urgently needed to contain this spread. BioMed Central 2013-02-14 /pmc/articles/PMC3691711/ /pubmed/23410479 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2047-2994-2-6 Text en Copyright © 2013 Magiorakos et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Magiorakos, Anna-Pelagia
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Monnet, Dominique L
Gagliotti, Carlo
Heuer, Ole E
The rise of carbapenem resistance in Europe: just the tip of the iceberg?
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23410479
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2047-2994-2-6
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