The limits of serial surveillance cultures in predicting clearance of colonization with carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology : the Official Journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America
Jessica D LewisCosti D Sifri

Abstract

An accepted practice for patients colonized with multidrug-resistant organisms is to discontinue contact precautions following 3 consecutive negative surveillance cultures. Our experience with surveillance cultures to detect persistent carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) colonization suggests that extrapolation of this practice to CPE-colonized patients may not be appropriate.

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