Any patient who has one of following risk factors is “at-risk” for carriage of CRE: | |
a. A history of an overnight stay in a healthcare setting in the last 12 months b. Has been either dialysis-dependent or received cancer chemotherapy in the last 12 months c. Known history of previous carriage of CRE in the last 12 monthsa d. Has been previously epidemiologically linked to a patient known to be a carrier of CREb |