Patient-to-patient transmission of the so-called New Delhi strain of carabapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) in a Rhode Island hospital was recently reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Clinicians caring for patients infected with such organisms have few, if any,…
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