Concurrent transmission of multiple carbapenemases in a long-term acute-care hospital.

Objective: We investigated concurrent outbreaks of carrying (VIM-CRPA) and Enterobacterales carrying (KPC-CRE) at a long-term acute-care hospital (LTACH A).

Methods: We defined an incident case as the first detection of or from a patient's clinical cultures or colonization screening test. We reviewed medical records and performed infection control assessments, colonization screening, environmental sampling, and molecular characterization of carbapenemase-producing organisms from clinical and environmental sources by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and whole-genome sequencing.

Occurrence of -Lactamase-Producing Gram-Negative Bacterial Isolates in Water Sources in Cali City, Colombia.

Introduction: Pollution by domestic, industrial, and hospital wastes of the artificial and natural waters of the city of Cali led us to investigate the presence of Gram-negative bacteria resistant to antibiotics in these aquatic ecosystems.

Material And Methods: We used culture-dependent methods and molecular techniques to investigate the prevalence and dynamics of -lactamase producing Gram-negative bacteria in five areas located in channels and rivers that cross the city of Cali in January (dry season) and May (wet season). The association between the variables was determined by the chi-square test, using the statistical package SPSS vs 23.

The burden of childhood injuries and evidence based strategies developed using the injury surveillance system in Pasto, Colombia.

Objective: This article characterises the burden of childhood injuries and provides examples of evidence-based injury prevention strategies developed using a citywide injury surveillance system in Pasto, Colombia.

Methods: Fatal (2003-2007) and non-fatal (2006-2007) childhood injury data were analysed by age, sex, cause, intent, place of occurrence, and disposition.

Results: Boys accounted for 71.

Isolation of Candida dubliniensis for the first time in Cali, Colombia, and its identification with phenotyping methods.

Candida dubliniensis is an emerging pathogenic yeast isolated mainly from the oral cavity of HIV-infected patients. The close phenotypic and genotypic relationship between C. albicans and C.

Medically important fungi found in hallux nails of university students from Cali, Colombia.

The presence of medically important fungi was studied in hallux nails scrapings obtained from 504 students (204 males, 300 females) of three universities in Cali. Specimens were examined by direct microscopic examination and fungal culture. Medically important fungi were found in 49 (9.