Prevalence of Multi-Resistant Microorganisms and Antibiotic Stewardship among Hospitalized Patients Living in Residential Care Homes in Spain: A Cross-Sectional Study

• Main Authors: Mario Rivera-Izquierdo (Author), Alberto Benavente-Fernández (Author), Jairo López-Gómez (Author), Antonio Jesús Láinez- (Author), Marta Rodríguez-Camacho (Author), María del Carmen Valero-Ubierna (Author), Luis Miguel Martín-delosReyes (Author), Eladio Jiménez-Mejías (Author), Elena Moreno-Roldán (Author), Pablo Lardelli-Claret (Author), Virginia Martínez-Ruiz (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Antimicrobial resistance is a growing global health problem. Patients living in care homes are a vulnerable high-risk population colonized by multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO). We identified a case series of 116 residents of care homes from a cohort of 540 consecutive patients admitted to the int...