Implementation of an infection control program with emphasis on cohorting to patients with carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae. The experience of 2 years in a tertiary teaching hospital in northern Portugal.

Increasing national trends in carbapenem resistance in K pneumoniae for the period 2014 to 2017 were observed in Slovakia, Poland and Portugal, whereas there was a decreasing trend in Croatia, Slovenia, and Italy. 5 For Escherichia coli , EARS-Net data for 2017 show a lower overall EU/EEA population-weighted mean percentage (0.1%) of carbapenem resistance in invasive isolates, with national percentages ranging from 0% to 1.6% (2017).

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