title: Link between carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteria carriage and cross-border exchanges: eight-year surveillance in a large French multihospitals institution.
abstract: Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris launched a specific strategy to survey and control the spread of emerging multidrug-resistant bacteria such as carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteria (CPE). Among the 63 CPE events that occurred between 2004 and 2011, 87% involved patients with a link with cross-border exchanges, justifying the recommendation to screen and isolate such patients.
authors.affiliation: Central Infection Control Team, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France. sandra.fournier@sap.aphp.fr
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fournier
authors.forename: Margaux
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lepainteur
authors.forename: Najiby
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kassis-Chikhani
authors.forename: Michele
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Brun-Buisson
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Jarlier
mesh_terms: D021821:Communicable Diseases, Emerging / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control*; D024901:Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial; D004755:Enterobacteriaceae / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004756:Enterobacteriaceae Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male