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JOURNAL OF INFECTION AND CHEMOTHERAPY
Volume 24, Issue 12, Pages 1013-1015Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jiac.2018.05.013
Keywords
Active surveillance culture; Carbapenemase-producing; Enterobacteriaceae; IMP-6
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- Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare [H28-Sinko-Ippan-004]
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This report described the experience of active surveillance culture implemented in response to the identification of a single carbapenemase-producing Escherichia coli in a Japanese university hospital. It revealed a horizontal transmission event and an additional asymptomatic carrier of carbapenemase-producing Escherichia coli with unique drug susceptibility and resistance gene profiles. Early implementation of active surveillance culture as a part of multifaceted infection control measures appeared to be useful to control further transmission of carbapenemase-producing Escherichia coli even in the low endemic facility. Further investigations on the timing and usefulness of active surveillance culture in the control of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae would be warranted. (C) 2018 Japanese Society of Chemotherapy and The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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