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About the usefulness of contact precautions for carriers of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli

Zahar, Jean-Ralph ; Poirel, Laurent ; Dupont, Claire ; Fortineau, Nicolas ; Nassif, Xavier ; Nordmann, Patrice

In: BMC Infectious Diseases, 2015, vol. 15, p. 512

Extended-spectrum β-lactamases producing Escherichia coli (ESBL-E) are increasingly identified in health care facilities. As previously done for the control of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, many hospitals have established screening strategies for early identification of patients being carriers of ESBL producers in general and ESBL-E in particular, and have implemented contact...