CRE Detect and Protect Crash Course

CRE Detect and Protect Crash Course

Illinois Infection Prevention and CRE Workshop July 2015

Robynn Cheng Leidig, MPH Public Health Prevention Service Fellow

Division of Patient Safety and Quality Illinois Department of Public Health

Disclosures

? I have nothing to disclose

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I want to cover:

? What is CRE and XDRO? ? The roles we each play ? What happens after a CRE case is reported?

Carbapenem What is CRE?

Resistant Enterobacteriaceae

Carbapenem: Class of broadspectrum antibiotics

Resistant: Bacteria with mutations

that make antibiotics ineffective

Enterobacteriaceae: Family of bacteria that includes Escherichia coli, Klebsiella sp., Enterobacter

CRE is

? KPC ? NDM ? OXA ? VIM ? IMP

CRE is not...

? VRE ? Pseudomonas ? Acinetobacter ? ESBLs

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