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The relevance of sink proximity to toilets on the detection of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase inside sink drains. Am J Infect Control 2019 Jan;47(1):98-100

Date

09/03/2018

Pubmed ID

30172608

DOI

10.1016/j.ajic.2018.06.021

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85052737901 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   17 Citations

Abstract

We report a higher prevalence of bla_KPC in patient room sink drains located next to toilets (87.0%) when compared with sink drains located farther away from toilets (21.7%) using direct polymerase chain reaction assay. However, culture methods were only able to recover bla_KPC-positive isolates from 16% of polymerase chain reaction-positive drains.

Author List

Buchan BW, Graham MB, Lindmair-Snell J, Arvan J, Ledeboer NA, Nanchal R, Munoz-Price LS

Authors

Blake W. Buchan PhD Professor in the Pathology department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Mary Beth Graham MD Associate Chief, Professor in the Medicine department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Nathan A. Ledeboer PhD Vice Chair, Professor in the Pathology department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Rahul Sudhir Nanchal MD Professor in the Medicine department at Medical College of Wisconsin

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Bacterial Proteins
Bathroom Equipment
Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae
Environmental Microbiology
Humans
Klebsiella pneumoniae
Prevalence
Water Supply
beta-Lactamases