Zahar, Jean-Ralph Poirel, Laurent Dupont, Claire Fortineau, Nicolas Nassif, Xavier Nordmann, Patrice 2015 Extended-spectrum β-lactamases producing Escherichia coli (ESBL-E) are increasingly identified in health care facilities. As previously done for the control of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, many hospitals have established screening strategies for early identification of patients being carriers of ESBL producers in general and ESBL-E in particular, and have implemented contact precautions (CP) for infected and colonized patients.Methods: The incidence of ESBL-E has been compared retrospectively between two French university hospitals (A and B) with different infection control policies over a 5-year long period of time (2006–2010).Results: While hospital A only implemented standard precautions after identification of patients colonized with ESBL-E, hospital B recommended additional CP. During the period of the study, the ESBL-E incidence rate significantly increased in both hospitals, but no significant difference was observed between the two hospitals.Conclusions: This observational study did not reveal that additional CP measures had a greater impact on the incidence of ESBL-E in hospital settings. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/304676 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/304676/files/nor_auc.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1186/s12879-015-1244-x info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined BMC Infectious Diseases. - 2015, vol. 15, p. 512 ß lactamase Infection control Isolation Hand hygiene info:eu-repo/classification/udc/616 About the usefulness of contact precautions for carriers of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501