BOSTON — Mechanically ventilated patients in long-term care facilities are far more likely to be colonized by Acinetobacter baumannii and Candida auris than those in acute-care facilities, a study found.
Both pathogens are on the CDC’s list of the five most urgent antibiotic resistance threats in the United States, along with Clostridioides difficile, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales and drug-resistant gonorrhea.
Although the new study by Anthony Harris, MD, MPH, a professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and colleagues found