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We screened healthy women delivering babies at delivery for the peri-rectal carriage of highly resistant gram negative bacteria (CRE) and found 2 colonized women with no history of antibiotics or travel.
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Why is it important?
This is significant as it demonstrates that these highly resistant organisms are not confined to sick, high risk hospitalized patients but have already spread into the community where further spread is to be expected.
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This page is a summary of: Perirectal Screening for Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Obtained From 100 Consecutive Healthy Pregnant Women in Labor at a Brooklyn Hospital: Results and Risk Factors, Infection Control, January 2018, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2017.295.
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