Saturday, March 21, 2009

Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae

The IHI today posted CDC guidelines regarding Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) on its website.

You can find IHI post
here.
You an go directly to the CDC guidelines
here.

Excerpt of IHI posting:
Infection with carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) or carbapenemase-producing enterobacteriaceae is emerging as an important challenge in health care settings. This threatens to become a problem akin to MRSA. Institutions must be alert for this and other very resistant organisms (ESBL, CTX producing gram negatives, etc.) and not limit foci to C. difficile and MRSA.

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