Transmission of Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in US hospitals.
Citation: Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2022 Sep 29PMID: 36173830Institution: MedStar Washington Hospital CenterDepartment: Medicine/Infectious DiseasesForm of publication: Journal ArticleMedline article type(s): Journal ArticleSubject headings: IN PROCESS -- NOT YET INDEXEDYear: 2022ISSN:- 1058-4838
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BACKGROUND: Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKp) is the most prevalent carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales in the United States. We evaluated clustering of CRKp in hospitalized patients in US hospitals.
CONCLUSIONS: Widespread intra-system and inter-system transmission of CRKp was identified in hospitalized US patients. Employing different methods for assessing genetic similarity resulted in only minor differences in interpretation. Copyright © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: [email protected].
METHODS: From April 2016 to August 2017, 350 patients with clonal group 258 were included as part of the Consortium on Resistance Against Carbapenems in Klebsiella and other Enterobacteriaceae (CRACKLE-2), a prospective, multicenter, cohort study. A maximum-likelihood tree was constructed using RAxML. Static clusters shared <=21 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) and a most recent common ancestor. Dynamic clusters incorporated SNP distance, culture timing, and rates of SNP accumulation and transmission using the R program TransCluster.
RESULTS: Most patients were admitted from home (n = 150, 43%) or a long-term care facility (n = 115, 33%). Urine (n = 149, 43%) was the most common site of isolation. In total, 55 static and 47 dynamics clusters were identified involving 210/350 (60%) and 194/350 (55%) patients, respectively. About half of static clusters were identical to dynamic clusters. Static clusters consisted of 33 (60%) intra-system and 22 (40%) inter-system clusters. Dynamic clusters consisted of 32 (68%) intra-system and 15 (32%) inter-system clusters and had fewer SNP differences compared to static clusters (8 versus 9, P= 0.045, 95% CI: [-4, 0]). Dynamic inter-system clusters contained more patients than dynamic intra-system clusters (median [IQR]: 4 [2, 7] vs 2 [2, 2], P= 0.007, 95% CI: [-3, 0]).
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