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BACKGROUND:Little is known about epidemiology of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) in children. Aim of this study was to describe CPE epidemiology in a tertiary care pediatric hospital in Italy that admits patients coming from geographic areas with high diffusion of CPE. METHODS:Prospective evaluation of the proportion and rates per 100,000 hospital discharges (D) or hospitalization-days (HD) of invasive infections due to CPE from 2013 to 2017 and of CPE infections and colonizations from 2014 to 2017. Disease-preventing strategies comprised patients' screening at admission, pre-emptive contact isolation precautions pending cultures results, and bundles for prevention of healthcare associated infections. RESULTS:From 2013 to 2017 CPE represented 3.5% of all invasive infections due to Enterobacteriaceae, with rates ranging 7.30-14.33 for D and 1.03-2.06 for HD, without major changes over time. On the contrary, overall rates of isolates increased from 83.03 to 191.34 for D and from 12.21 to 28.35 for HD. The intra-hospital diffusion consisted of 2 small outbreaks without invasive diseases in 2014-2015, and sporadic, not epidemiologically-related cases in 2016-2017. Globally, Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae represented 64% of identified CPE, while 70% of carbapenemases identified were metallo-beta-lactamases (VIM or NDM), with changes over time. CONCLUSIONS:In our center metallo-beta lactamases were the most frequently identified carbapenemases in Enterobacteriaceae and E. coli and K. pneumoniae the most frequently isolated pathogens carrying these enzymes. A proactive management strategy was effective in containing in-hospital spreading.
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J Infect Public Healthjournal_title
Journal of infection and public healthauthors
Castagnola E,Tatarelli P,Mesini A,Baldelli I,La Masa D,Biassoni R,Bandettini Rdoi
10.1016/j.jiph.2018.11.003subject
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2019-01-01 00:00:00pages
270-274issue
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1876-0341issn
1876-035Xpii
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