Rectal swabs are suitable for quantifying the carriage load of KPC-producing carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae

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It is more convenient and practical to collect rectal swabs than stool specimens to study carriage of colon pathogens. In this study, we examined the ability to use rectal swabs rather than stool specimens to quantify Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-producing carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE). We used a quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) assay to determine the concentration of the blaKPC gene relative to the concentration of 16S rRNA genes and a quantitative culture-based method to quantify CRE relative to total aerobic bacteria. Our results demonstrated that rectal swabs are suitable for quantifying the concentration of KPC-producing CRE and that qPCR showed higher correlation between rectal swabs and stool specimens than the culture-based method. Copyright © 2013, American Society for Microbiology.

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Lerner, A., Romano, J., Chmelnitsky, I., Navon-Venezia, S., Edgar, R., & Carmeli, Y. (2013). Rectal swabs are suitable for quantifying the carriage load of KPC-producing carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 57(3), 1474–1479. https://doi.org/10.1128/AAC.01275-12

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