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Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in patients with bacteraemia at tertiary hospitals in South Africa, 2015 to 2018 by O. Perovic; for GERMS-SA; H. Ismail; V. Quan; C. Bamford; T. Nana; V. Chibabhai; P. Bhola; P. Ramjathan; K. Swe Swe-Han; J. Wadula; A. Whitelaw; M. Smith; Nontombi Mbelle; A. Singh-Moodley is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in patients with bacteraemia at tertiary hospitals in South Africa, 2015 to 2018 about?
Enhanced surveillance for CREs was established at national sentinel sites in South Africa. We aimed to apply an epidemiological and microbiological approach to characterise CREs and to assess trends in antimicrobial resistance from patients admitted to tertiary academic hospitals. A retrospective analysis was conducted on patients of all ages with CRE bacteraemia admitted at any one of 12 tertiary academic hospitals in four provinces (Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Western Cape and Free State) in South Africa. The study period was from July 2015 to December 2018. A case of CRE bacteraemia was defined as a patient admitted to one of the selected tertiary hospitals where any of the Enterobacteriaceae was isolated from a blood culture, and was resistant to the carbapenems (ertapenem, meropenem, imipenem and/or doripenem) or had a positive result for the Modified Hodge Test (MHT) according to the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) guidelines. A positive blood culture result obtained after 21 days of the last blood culture result was regarded as a new case. To distinguish hospital-acquired (HA) from the community-acquired (CA) bacteraemia, the following definitions were applied
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- Author
- O. Perovic; for GERMS-SA; H. Ismail; V. Quan; C. Bamford; T. Nana; V. Chibabhai; P. Bhola; P. Ramjathan; K. Swe Swe-Han; J. Wadula; A. Whitelaw; M. Smith; Nontombi Mbelle; A. Singh-Moodley
- Publisher
- Springer; Springer-Verlag; Springer Verlag; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 0934-9723)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)