title: [Carbapenem-resistant bacteria transferred to the Netherlands: patients colonised during hospitalisation in Romania].
abstract: Three patients were recently transferred to two Intensive Care Units (ICUs) in the Netherlands from two different ICUs in Bucharest, Romania. The patients appeared to be colonised with several, partly identical, carbapenemase-producing bacteria (CPB) after a short hospitalisation in Romania. In this article, we show that it is important to be aware of the possibility that patients are colonised with CPB after a short hospitalisation abroad. This has consequences for infection prevention measurements, but probably also for the discontinuation of selective bowel decontamination in the ICU.
authors.affiliation: Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis, afd. Medische Microbiologie, Amsterdam.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hoogewerf
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Budding
authors.forename: A M E
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Spoelstra-de Man
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vloemans
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Rozemeijer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001419:Bacteria; D015780:Carbapenems / Q000494:pharmacology*; D003428:Cross Infection; D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008297:Male; D009426:Netherlands / Q000208:ethnology; D012383:Romania / Q000453:epidemiology; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D015780:Carbapenems