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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL
Volume 40, Issue 5, Pages 474-476Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2011.06.011
Keywords
Antimicrobial resistance; Sensitivity; Infection control; Nosocomial; Screening
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- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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To quantify the sensitivity of surveillance cultures for the detection of multidrug-resistant gram-negative (MDRGN) bacteria, perianal/rectal swabs were collected from patients with positive clinical cultures for MDRGN species. Surveillance cultures identified colonization with the same genetically related MDRGN species in 29 of 37 MDRGN clinical culture isolates (78%). There was a trend toward less antimicrobial exposure among patients with false-negative surveillance culture results (P = .06). Copyright (C) 2012 by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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