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High prevalence of ESBL-positive bacteria in an obstetrics emergency hospital and neonatal care unit—Haiti, 2016

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2018

Katerina Chaintarli
Affiliation:
European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Solna, Sweden Health Protection Surveillance Center, Dublin, Ireland Médecins Sans Frontières Operational Centre Amsterdam, Port au Prince, Haiti
Annick Lenglet*
Affiliation:
European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Solna, Sweden Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Bregeneve Dabord Beauzile
Affiliation:
Médecins Sans Frontières Operational Centre Amsterdam, Port au Prince, Haiti
Rodnie Senat-Delva
Affiliation:
Médecins Sans Frontières Operational Centre Amsterdam, Port au Prince, Haiti
Marie-Marcelle Mabou
Affiliation:
The Haitian Group for the Study of Kaposi’s Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections, Port au Prince, Haiti
Chiara Martino
Affiliation:
Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Marine Berthet
Affiliation:
Médecins Sans Frontières Operational Centre Amsterdam, Port au Prince, Haiti
Sidney Wong
Affiliation:
Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Joost Hopman
Affiliation:
Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
*
Author for correspondence: Annick Lenglet, Médecins Sans Frontières, Operational Centre Amsterdam, Plantage Middenlaan 14, 1018 DD, Amsterdam. E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

A point-prevalence survey of mothers and neonates admitted to an obstetrics emergency hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, revealed that 13 of 127 gram-negative bacteria isolates (10%) from rectal swabs were ESBL-positive in women and 30 of 59 gram-negative bacteria isolates (51%) from rectal swabs were ESBL-positive in neonates. Length of hospital stay and antibiotic consumption were risk factors for ESBL colonization.

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Concise Communication
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© 2018 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved. 

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