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Newest firstBackgroundAsymptomatic screening and contact precautions for multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO) has been used to prevent transmission to other patients. However, the benefits are unclear due to differences in screening, challenges with accurately measuring transmission, and confounders when using clinical infections as an outcome measure. We aimed to compare the impact of different screening strategies on MDRO t…
Open article record in new tab ↗There is an urgent need to improve our understanding of how new antibiotic resistant organisms emerge and spread. A high-priority resistance threat is the ST258 lineage of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae. Here, we studied resistance to the last-line drug colistin among ST258 by tracking its evolution across 21 U.S. hospitals over the course of a year. Phylogenetic analysis supported a significant fitnes…