Risk Factors and Molecular Epidemiology of Infections Among Patients with Intestinal Colonization by Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae: A Retrospective Study of Active Screening in a Tertiary Hospital
Xinyue Li, Meijia Huang, Bin Shan, Xiaoyan Zhu, Yunmin Xu, Shaoxuan Li, Xundie Li, Xinyi Zheng, Yuehong Dong, Hongjuan Zhang · 2025
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Li and co-authors study patients whose guts carry carbapenem-resistant bacteria, germs that shrug off some of the strongest antibiotics. These patients may stay well, or the same germs may later cause a real infection. The team wanted to know how often that happens and what raises the risk.
Screening 8,088 patients at a large Chinese hospital found only about half a percent carried the bacteria. Yet over a third of carriers later developed infection, mostly with Klebsiella pneumoniae in the lungs, blood, or urinary tract. The infecting strains nearly always matched the gut strains and carried the same resistance gene. Having several other illnesses raised the risk.
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| CREATOR | Xinyue Li, Meijia Huang, Bin Shan, Xiaoyan Zhu, Yunmin Xu, Shaoxuan Li, Xundie Li, Xinyi Zheng, Yuehong Dong, Hongjuan Zhang |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |