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. 2019 Jun;40(6):731-734.
doi: 10.1017/ice.2019.61. Epub 2019 Mar 28.

Tracking the spread of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) through clinical cultures alone underestimates the spread of CRE even more than anticipated

Bruce Y Lee  1 , Sarah M Bartsch  1 , Kim F Wong  2 , Diane S Kim  3 , Chenghua Cao  3 , Leslie E Mueller  1 , Gabrielle M Gussin  3 , James A McKinnell  4 , Loren G Miller  4 , Susan S Huang  3
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Tracking the spread of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) through clinical cultures alone underestimates the spread of CRE even more than anticipated

Bruce Y Lee et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2019 Jun.
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BYL, SMB, KFW, DSK, CC, and LEM, have nothing to disclose.

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Figure 1.
A) Number of all Orange County, California healthcare facilities (102 total; 23 hospitals, 5 LTACHs, and 74 nursing homes) that have at least one known (new or historical) CRE carrier under contact precautions compared to the number that have any CRE carriers (detected or undetected) over time; B) Number of OC acute care facilities (hospitals and LTACHs) that have at least one known CRE carrier on contact precautions compared to the number that have any CRE carriers (detected or undetected) over time; C) Number of known CRE carriers on contact precautions and total CRE carriers on any given day in an example OC acute care hospital; D) Number of known CRE carriers and total CRE carriers each day in all OC hospitals over time (median and range of simulated trajectories); E) Number of known CRE carriers and total CRE carriers each day in all OC LTACHs over time (median and range of simulated trajectories); F) Number of known CRE carriers and total CRE carriers each day in all OC nursing homes over time (median and range of simulated trajectories). Note differences in scale across panels.
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