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. 2023 Nov 6;3(1):e200.
doi: 10.1017/ash.2023.454. eCollection 2023.

Outbreak of extensively drug-resistant Serratia marcescens in an intensive care unit

Tazio Vanni  1   2 , Letícia Olivier Sudbrack  1 , Tatiana Amabile de Campos  3 , Rafael Nakamura da Silva  4 , André Pitondo da Silva  4 , Rodrigo Pereira Estefani  1   5 , Tatyana Botelho de Oliveira  1 , Paulo Henrique Caixeta Canedo  5 , Ricardo Domingues Guzman  6 , Jordana Rey Laureto  5 , Julival Fagundes Ribeiro  1
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Outbreak of extensively drug-resistant Serratia marcescens in an intensive care unit

Tazio Vanni et al. Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. .

Abstract

We present the investigation and control of an extensively drug-resistant Serratia marcescens outbreak in a 30-bed intensive care unit (ICU). Within 6 weeks, 4 critically ill trauma patients were infected by the same strain. Intensive containment measures limited the spread of this strain while sustaining the capacity of the trauma ICU.

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The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. None of the authors have any potential conflict of interest to declare.

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Figure 1.
Enterobacterial Repetitive Intergenic Consensus Polymerase Chain Reaction of Serratia marcescens isolates from samples of 4 patients. SM1: S. marcescens isolate from patient 1, SM2: S. marcescens isolate from patient 2, SM3: S. marcescens isolate from patient 3, SM4: S. marcescens isolate from patient 4.
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