Routine active surveillance for carbapenemase-producing enterobacteriaceae from rectal swabs: Diagnostic implications of multiplex polymerase chain reaction

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 66-71

  Lowman, W ^a,b   Marais, M ^a   Ahmed, K ^a   Marcus, L ^a  

^a Vermaak and Partners Pathologists   (South Africa)

^b University of the Witwatersrand   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Active surveillance; Carbapenemase producing enterobacteriaceae; Multiplex polymerase chain reaction; Rectal swabs; Screening

Indexed keywords

ERTAPENEM; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEMASE;

ACTIVE SURVEILLANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CARBAPENEMASE GENE; CARBAPENEMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT EXAMINATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RECTAL SWAB; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; RECTUM; RISK FACTOR; SOUTH AFRICA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; RECTUM; RISK FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84908170888     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: 15322939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2014.06.009     Document Type: Article

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