Significance of Prior Digestive Colonization With Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase–Producing Enterobacteriaceae in Patients With Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia* - Concepedia

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Significance of Prior Digestive Colonization With Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase–Producing Enterobacteriaceae in Patients With Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia*

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2015

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Rémi Bruyère, Clara Vigneron, Julien Bador, Serge Aho, Amaury Toitot, Jean‐Pierre Quenot, Sébastien Prin, Pierre‐Emmanuel Charles

Critical Care Medicine

Abstract

Screening for extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae digestive colonization by weekly active surveillance cultures could reliably exclude the risk of the involvement of such pathogens in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia in low-prevalence area.