Resistant bacteria spread through healthcare facilities and communities
#00367
Patients and communities are exposed to resistant bacteria through preventable transmission, particularly where infection prevention, sanitation, isolation, and outbreak coordination are weak.
Parent issue
#00365 Antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections make common treatment increasingly unreliable
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Antibiotic-resistant bacteria spread between patients, healthcare workers, facilities, households, and communities. Transmission is amplified by inadequate hand hygiene, overcrowding, insufficient cleaning, contaminated equipment, weak screening and isolation capacity, patient transfers, and delayed outbreak recognition.
The WHO infection prevention and control programme identifies strong infection prevention as central to controlling AMR spread in healthcare settings. The nationwide spread of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales in Israel illustrated how local measures can fail when patient transfers and reporting are not coordinated across institutions. National containment study
This issue concerns preventable transmission. It excludes inappropriate prescribing and inadequate access to effective treatment.
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