Which strategies follow from the surveillance of multidrug-resistant bacteria to strengthen the control of their spread? A French experience.
Efforts to enhance standard precautions and to isolate patients with positive routine clinical cultures during 3 years were insufficient to decrease multidrug-resistant bacteria infection rates. Routine screening for carriage in high-risk patients may be necessary to halt transmission and control the hospital reservoir.
Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Virologie, Hygiène Hospitalière, Hôpital G&R Laënnec, Nantes, France.
Didier
D
Lepelletier
Stéphanie
S
Perron
Hélène
H
Huguenin
Monique
M
Picard
Pascale
P
Bemer
Jocelyne
J
Caillon
Marie-Emmanuelle
ME
Juvin
Henri Bernard
HB
Drugeon
D002353:Carrier State; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D018432:Drug Resistance, Multiple; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods*; D018571:Sentinel Surveillance