TY - JOUR AU - Nucleo, Elisabetta AU - Caltagirone, Mariasofia AU - Marchetti, Vittoria Mattioni AU - D’Angelo, Roberto AU - Fogato, Elena AU - Confalonieri, Massimo AU - Reboli, Camilla AU - March, Albert AU - Sleghel, Ferisa AU - Soelva, Gertrud AU - Pagani, Elisabetta AU - Aschbacher, Richard AU - Migliavacca, Roberta AU - Pagani, Laura AU - Pagani, Laura AU - Confalonieri, Massimo AU - Aschbacher, Richard AU - Farina, Claudio AU - Fazii, Paolo AU - Luzzaro, Francesco AU - Montanera, Pier Giorgio AU - Migliavacca, Roberta AU - AMCLI – GLISTer Group AU - ESCMID Study Group Elderly Infections – ESGIE PY - 2018 DA - 2018/03/06 TI - Colonization of long-term care facility residents in three Italian Provinces by multidrug-resistant bacteria JO - Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control SP - 33 VL - 7 IS - 1 AB - Rationale and aims of the study were to compare colonization frequencies with MDR bacteria isolated from LTCF residents in three different Northern Italian regions, to investigate risk factors for colonization and the genotypic characteristics of isolates. The screening included Enterobacteriaceae expressing extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESβLs) and high-level AmpC cephalosporinases, carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa or Acinetobacter baumannii, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). SN - 2047-2994 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-018-0326-0 DO - 10.1186/s13756-018-0326-0 ID - Nucleo2018 ER -