Epidemiological trends of multidrug-resistant organisms in a tertiary-care pediatric hospital, 2017–2023
Carmen D’Amore, Paola Bernaschi, Gaetano Ciliento, Flavia Beccia, Leonardo Villani, Benedetta Zama, Elisa Cappelli, Lucilla Ravà, Carlo Federico Perno, Massimiliano Raponi, Marta Ciofi degli Atti · 2026
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Carmen D'Amore and ten colleagues chart seven years of drug-resistant bacteria in an Italian children's hospital, where the youngest patients face the resistance risk. Their 2026 study pulled blood and spinal-fluid cultures from inpatients and the emergency department between 2017 and 2023. Attention centred on the ESKAPE pathogen group plus E. coli. Resistance was tracked per organism, and models linked resistant infections to year, ward, and patient traits.
Of 51,886 cultures, 1,528 grew an organism and 211 of those, 13.8 percent, were resistant to many drugs. Carbapenem-proof Pseudomonas topped the table at 52.8 percent, with MRSA next at 36.7 percent. Two trends improved: MRSA fell from 43.5 to 25.7 percent across the period, and resistant Pseudomonas dropped steeply, especially in 2020 and 2021. Klebsiella and vancomycin-resistant enterococci held steady. Newborn and intensive care wards carried MRSA risk, while cancer wards tripled the odds of VRE. Maps like this, the authors argue, are what empirical prescribing should follow.
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| CREATOR | Carmen D’Amore, Paola Bernaschi, Gaetano Ciliento, Flavia Beccia, Leonardo Villani, Benedetta Zama, Elisa Cappelli, Lucilla Ravà, Carlo Federico Perno, Massimiliano Raponi, Marta Ciofi degli Atti |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38691 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |