Comment on “Infection outbreaks caused by Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales: An epidemiological surveillance study in public hospitals in Chile, 2017–2024”
Dilip Kumar Kakru, Hima Bindu Mantravadi, Pankaj Nainwal, Apoorva Makan, Fayaz Ahamed · 2026
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Dilip Kakru and colleagues write to the editor in 2026 questioning numbers in a Chilean study of resistant bacteria outbreaks in public hospitals from 2017 to 2024. Clear reporting matters because the study compares outbreak patterns before, during and after the pandemic. Several table values, the letter argues, cannot be reproduced from the figures shown beside them.
Differences labelled between period medians do not match simple subtraction of the displayed medians for outbreak size or duration. Some percentage intervals for rare deaths exceed logical bounds or clash with their p-values. Attack rates also counted infections only, with no screening for silent carriage, which other programmes show forms most detected cases. Precise methods, unrounded estimates and bounds-aware statistics would let readers judge the temporal claims properly, the letter concludes.
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| CREATOR | Dilip Kumar Kakru, Hima Bindu Mantravadi, Pankaj Nainwal, Apoorva Makan, Fayaz Ahamed |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 5 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |