The relevance of sink proximity to toilets on the detection of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase inside sink drains

American Journal of Infection Control
Blake W BuchanL Silvia Munoz-Price

Abstract

We report a higher prevalence of blaKPC in patient room sink drains located next to toilets (87.0%) when compared with sink drains located farther away from toilets (21.7%) using direct polymerase chain reaction assay. However, culture methods were only able to recover blaKPC-positive isolates from 16% of polymerase chain reaction-positive drains.

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Jan 11, 2020·Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology : the Official Journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America·Jorge A Ramos-CastanedaL Silvia Munoz-Price
Feb 13, 2020·Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control·Po Ying ChiaKalisvar Marimuthu
Apr 18, 2019·Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology : the Official Journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America·Blake W BuchanL Silvia Munoz-Price
Dec 29, 2020·Clinical Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America·Fu QiaoZhiyong Zong
May 29, 2021·Euro Surveillance : Bulletin Européen Sur Les Maladies Transmissibles = European Communicable Disease Bulletin·Sarah JolivetFrédéric Barbut
Aug 25, 2021·Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology : the Official Journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America·Brendan J KellyUNKNOWN CDC Prevention Epicenters Program

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