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Efficiency of different control measures for preventing carbapenemase-producing enterobacteria and glycopeptide-resistant Enterococcus faecium outbreaks: a 6-year prospective study in a French multihospital institution, January 2010 to December 2015

Fournier, Sandra ; Desenfant, Laure ; Monteil, Catherine ; Nion-Huang, Michèle ; Richard, Christian ; Jarlier, Vincent ; AP-HP Outbreaks Control Group

In: Eurosurveillance, 2018, vol. 23, no. 8, p. 17–00078

An infection control programme was implemented in a 21,000-bed multihospital institution for controlling the spread of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) and glycopeptide-resistant Enterococcus faecium (GRE), classified as ‘emergent extensively drug-resistant bacteria’ (eXDR) in France. We evaluated factors associated with outbreaks occurrence (n = 103), which followed 901...