Screening Agars for Detection of Klebsiella pneumoniae Carbapenemase -Carbapenem Resistant Enterobacteriaceae from Rectal Swabs of ICU Patients

Point Prevalence Survey for Screening of Carbapeneme Resistant Enterobacteriaceae in ICU Patients using CDC Protocol and Chromogenic Agar

“…Also, a voluntary surveillance program was done to assess the epidemiology of CPE in Ontario, by Public Health Ontario in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, the prevalence of carbapenamase producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) in large community hospitals in Canada was 59% when done on 458 isolates by PCR (PHO, 2013). Similarly in Othman et al, (2016) study, the prevalence of KPC producing CRE were 57%.…”

“…They found that positive predictive value and specificity of ertapenem resistance for KPC detection were 74% and 99.2%, respectively. Similarly in Othman et al, (2016) study they found that Mac. ETP showed the highest sensitivity for detection of KPC producing CRE 71%.…”

“…two isolates only were pure growth) (Table 1). Similarly, in a study in Egypt made by Othman et al, (2016), they tested100 rectal swabs that were subcultured on MacConkey agar supplemented with different types of carbapenems. They found that 62% of rectal swabs were positive for CRE.…”