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Risk factors associated with carbapenemase-producing enterobacterales (CPE) positivity in the hospital wastewater environment
- Abstract:
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Background:Hospital wastewater is an increasingly recognized reservoir for resistant Gramnegative organisms. Factors involved in establishment and persistence of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-producing organisms (KPCO) in hospital wastewater plumbing are unclear.
Methods: This study was conducted at a hospital with endemic KPCO linked to wastewater reservoirs and robust patient perirectal screening for silent KPCO carriage. Over five months, ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- American Society for Microbiology Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Applied and Environmental Microbiology Journal website
- Volume:
- 86
- Issue:
- 24
- Article number:
- e01715-20
- Publication date:
- 2020-11-24
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-09-08
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1098-5336
- ISSN:
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0099-2240
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- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
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1132467
- Local pid:
- pubs:1132467
- Deposit date:
- 2020-09-16
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- Copyright holder:
- Park, SC et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © 2020 Park et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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