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Make sure a (CPE) iceberg doesn’t sink your ship

May 24, 2019 Jon Otter (@jonotter) CRE clinical cultures, CPE, modelling, screening, surveillance

An interesting modelling study has quantified the size of the CPE iceberg lurking under the water when CPE is only detected by clinical cultures and no active screening is done. And the CPE iceberg is larger than you may think!

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