JUL 14, 2026 · JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rectal carriage with carbapenem-resistant organisms, vancomycin-resistant enterococci, and Clostridioides difficile: insights from a point-prevalence survey in a high-endemic setting.
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Rigorous point-prevalence survey with molecular and culture confirmation, multivariable regression analysis, and clinical outcome follow-up in a defined high-endemic population, establishing significant associations between rectal carriage and mortality/morbidity with reported effect sizes and confidence intervals.
Reported
CRO carriage prevalence19.8%
VRE carriage prevalence35.6%
Asymptomatic C. difficile carriag…9.9%