Household transmission of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae: A prospective cohort study

• Main Authors: Kalisvar Marimuthu, Yin Mo, Moi Lin Ling, Anastasia Hernandez-Koutoucheva, Shannon N. Fenlon, Denis Bertrand, David Chien Lye, Brenda Sze Peng Ang, Eli Perencevich, Oon Tek Ng, Ben S. Cooper, Niranjan Nagarajan, Swaine L. Chen, Timothy Barkham
• 其他作者: National Centre for Infectious Diseases
• 格式: Article
• 出版: 2022
• 主題: Medicine; Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
• 在線閱讀: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/78249

Objectives: To estimate the transmission rate of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) in households with recently hospitalized CPE carriers. Methods: We conducted a prospective case-ascertained cohort study. We identified the presence of CPE in stool samples from index subjects, househol...