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Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii load in patients and their environment: the importance of detecting carriers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2023

Vered Schechner Open the ORCID record for Vered Schechner [Opens in a new window] ,
Anat Or Lerner ,
Elizabeth Temkin  and
Yehuda Carmeli
Vered Schechner*
Affiliation:
Division of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel National Institute for Antibiotic Resistance and Infection Control, Ministry of Health, Tel Aviv, Israel Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Anat Or Lerner
Affiliation:
Division of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Elizabeth Temkin
Affiliation:
National Institute for Antibiotic Resistance and Infection Control, Ministry of Health, Tel Aviv, Israel
Yehuda Carmeli
Affiliation:
National Institute for Antibiotic Resistance and Infection Control, Ministry of Health, Tel Aviv, Israel Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Author for correspondence: Vered Schechner, E-mail: vereds@tlvmc.gov.il
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Abstract

The environment surrounding 30 of 31 carriers of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) was contaminated by CRAB. The environmental CRAB loads were similar whether carriers were identified only by surveillance cultures (nonclinical carriers) or also had positive clinical cultures. Screening to detect and isolate nonclinical CRAB carriers may be important to prevent CRAB transmission.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 44 , Issue 10 , October 2023 , pp. 1670 - 1672
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

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