Trends in Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Isolated from Screening Clinical Samples in a Tertiary Care Hospital over the 2018-2022 Period.

ABSTRACT: To assess the putative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria recovered from routine screening samples and, more globally, the trends in time to first positive screening sample and carriage duration of those bacteria in patients admitted to a tertiary hospital, data from laboratory results were retrospectively mined over the 2018-2022 period. No significant differences could be found in the number of positive patients or MDR isolates per year, time to positive screening, or carriage duration. Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase producers were dominant throughout the studied period but their relative proportion decreased over time as well as that of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Meanwhile, carbapenemase-producing enterobacteria (CPE) proporti

SUBMITTER: Lemonnier D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10451239 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature