Hospital sanitary facilities on wards with high antibiotic exposure play an important role in maintaining a reservoir of resistant pathogens, even over many years

Hospital sanitary facilities on wards with high antibiotic exposure play an important role in maintaining a reservoir of resistant pathogens, even over many years

Abstract Background Hospitals with their high antimicrobial selection pressure represent the presumably most important reservoir of multidrug-resistant human pathogens. Antibiotics administered in the course of treatment are excreted and discharged into the wastewater system. Not only in patients, b...

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Main Authors: Claudio Neidhöfer, Esther Sib, Marcel Neuenhoff, Oliver Schwengers, Tobias Dummin, Christian Buechler, Niklas Klein, Julian Balks, Katharina Axtmann, Katjana Schwab, Tobias A. W. Holderried, Georg Feldmann, Peter Brossart, Steffen Engelhart, Nico T. Mutters, Gabriele Bierbaum, Marijo Parčina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-04-01
Series:Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
Subjects:
Multidrug-resistant bacteria
Carbapenemase-encoding bacteria
Antibiotic-resistance
CRKP
CRPsA
K. pneumoniae ST147
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-023-01236-w

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-023-01236-w

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