Risk factors for prolonged carriage of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium among patients in intensive care units: a case-control study
- Authors
- Yoon, Young Kyung; Lee, Seung Eun; Lee, Juneyoung; Kim, Hyun Jeong; Kim, Jeong Yeon; Park, Dae Won; Sohn, Jang Wook; Kim, Min Ja
- Issue Date
- Aug-2011
- Publisher
- OXFORD UNIV PRESS
- Keywords
- ICUs; infection control; time-series analysis
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY, v.66, no.8, pp.1831 - 1838
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY
- Volume
- 66
- Number
- 8
- Start Page
- 1831
- End Page
- 1838
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/111863
- DOI
- 10.1093/jac/dkr204
- ISSN
- 0305-7453
- Abstract
- Objectives: The aim of this study was to identify the risk factors for prolonged carriage of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREF) in intensive care units (ICUs). Methods: A retrospective case-control study was performed in the ICUs of a university hospital in Korea from September 2006 to July 2009. VREF carriage was identified through weekly active surveillance rectal cultures. Clinical characteristics and the risk factors for VREF acquisition were compared between cases with prolonged VREF carriage (>= 5 weeks, n = 58) and controls with shorter VREF carriage (< 3 weeks, n = 36) in a multivariate logistic regression model. The effect of vancomycin consumption on vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) colonization pressure was investigated using time-series analysis with an autoregressive error model. Results: Out of a total of 6327 rectal swab cultures examined, 1915 (30.3%) specimens from 266 patients were positive for VREF. The weekly VRE colonization pressure ranged from 0.77% to 42.42%. Vancomycin use after VREF acquisition significantly increased VREF carriage (adjusted odds ratio = 4.09; 95% confidence interval = 1.32-12.65). The case group had higher in-hospital mortality than the control group [21 (36.2%) versus 4 (11.1%), P = 0.007]. Increment of VRE colonization pressure was significantly associated with vancomycin consumption of 1 week before (i.e. time t-1) (P = 0.0028) and moderately associated with that of the corresponding week (i.e. time t) (P = 0.0595). Conclusions: Vancomycin use in patients with VREF colonization might prolong the duration of carriage. Restriction of vancomycin use should be strengthened in these patients through infection control measures.
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