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October 14, 2018
Researchers in Israel said they contained a prolonged outbreak of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae, or CPE, in a hospital ICU after discovering that sink traps were the source of repeated infections in patients.
The outbreak included 32 cases of CPE — mostly caused by OXA-48-producing Serratia marcescens — occurring from January 2016 to May 2017 at the Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv, researchers reported in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. Three patients died.