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Low Frequency of Endemic Patient-to-Patient Transmission of Antibiotic-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacilli in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2015
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We sought to determine the frequency of horizontal transmission of antibiotic-resistant gram-negative bacilli (ARGNB) in a pediatric intensive care unit during a nonoutbreak period. Among 5,300 admissions over 39 consecutive months, 13 ARGNB clusters involving 35 children were identified by pulsed-filed gel electrophoresis analysis, which suggests that person-to-person transmission was uncommon.
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