Evidence of transmission of New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-producing through a gastrointestinal endoscope without an elevator channel.

Objective: To investigate the source and transmission dynamics of an endoscope-associated New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-producing (NDM-KP) outbreak.

Design: Epidemiological and genomic investigation.

Setting: Academic acute care hospital in New Jersey.

Multi-drug resistant : a 2019-2020 single center retrospective case control study.

Unlabelled: Multi-drug resistance in the post COVID-19 world is a growing concern. The objective of this study was to describe temporal trends and explore independent risk factors for the isolation of multi-drug resistant (MDR)

Methods: This was a retrospective case-control study of patients with isolates recovered from January 2019 to December 2020. MDR was defined as non-susceptibility to at least one agent in three or more anti-pseudomonal antimicrobial categories.