Table 1.

Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE) in COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients (6 March–2 May 2020) in the general ICU (non-COVID-19) and in the COVID-19-devoted ICUs.

ICU type	Blood cultures			Rectal swabs			No. of patients tested/total no. of patients in the ward (%)	Blood culture/colonisation rate (%)
	Pos.	Neg.	% CPE-pos.	Pos.	Neg.	% CPE-pos.
Non-COVID-19	7a	29	19.4%	11b	28	28.2%	39/48 (81.3%)	7/11 (63.6%)
COVID-19	2c	23	8.0%	14d	27	34.1%	65/80 (81.3%)	2/14 (14.3%)

COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019; ICU, intensive care unit.

^a–dNumber of isolates per bacterial species and carbapenemase type:

^a7 Klebsiella pneumoniae KPC-positive

^b11 K. pneumoniae KPC-positive

^c1 K. pneumoniae KPC-positive and 1 K. pneumoniae OXA-48-positive.

^d4 K. pneumoniae KPC-positive and 10 K. pneumoniae OXA-48-positive.