The limits of serial surveillance cultures in predicting clearance of colonization with carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae
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Culture Methods to Determine the Limit of Detection and Survival in Transport Media of Campylobacter Jejuni in Human Fecal Specimens
Published on: March 10, 2020
Jessica D Lewis1, Kyle B Enfield2, Amy J Mathers1
11Division of Infectious Diseases & International Health,Department of Medicine,University of Virginia Health System,Charlottesville,Virginia.
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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