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

Vered Schechner; Anat Or Lerner; Elizabeth Temkin; Yehuda Carmeli

doi:10.1017/ice.2023.39

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

Vered Schechner^*
, Anat Or Lerner
, Elizabeth Temkin
, Yehuda Carmeli

^*Corresponding author for this work

Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Ministry of Health, Israel

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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.

Original language	English
Journal	Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
Volume	25
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2023.39
State	Published - 27 Mar 2023

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