Hospital sanitary facilities on wards with high antibiotic exposure play an important role in maintaining a reservoir of resistant pathogens, even over many years

Table 1 General patient information of genotyped VIM-encoding P. aeruginosa isolates (CVP) (above) and NDM- and OXA48-encoding K. pneumoniae isolates (CNK) (below)

LOS: Length of Hospital Stay in days, previous to the date on which the positive sample was collected. Rows are color-coded according to isolate sequence type for better visualization, P. aeruginosa ST823 cluster in light blue, P. aeruginosa ST235 cluster in purple and K. pneumoniae ST147 cluster in red

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