Table 1.
Patient 1 (colonization) | KPC, OXA-48 and NDM (2/2/2015). Different species |
Patient 2 (infection site: endotracheal aspirate) | KPC, OXA-48 and NDM (23/2/2015). Different species |
Patient 3 (colonization) | OXA-48 and NDM (18/5/2015). Different species |
Patient 4 (infection site: abdominal abscess) | OXA-48 (15/7/2015). Different species |
Patient 5 (infection site: endotracheal aspirate) | NDM and OXA-48 (30/8/2015). Different species |
Five patients developed CPE carriage/infection during their hospital stay on the ICU A, room six between January and August 2015. They all had negative screenings on admission. The isolates belonged to different species with different antibiograms. The time period between the detection of these CPE positive patients was relatively small