Carbapenemase-producing Eenterobacterales from hospital environment and their relation to those from patient specimens

• Main Authors: Si Hyun Kim (Author), Gyu Ri Kim (Author), Eun-Young Kim (Author), Joseph Jeong (Author), Sunjoo Kim (Author), Jeong Hwan Shin (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2022-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: The hospital environment can be an important source for the transmission of pathogens, However, there are rare reports revealing the contamination of carbapenemase-producing enterobacterales (CPE) in the hospital environment. The aim of this study was to investigate the presence of CPE i...