Making Health Care Safer
About 4% of US hospitals had
at least one patient with a
CRE (carbapenem-resistant
Enterobacteriaceae) infection
during the first half of 2012.
About 18% of long-term acute
care hospitals* had one.
Stop Infections from Lethal CRE Germs Now
Untreatable and hard-to-treat infections from CRE
germs are on the rise among patients in medical facilities.
CRE germs have become resistant to all or nearly all the
antibiotics we have today.
Types of CRE include KPC
and NDM.
By following CDC guidelines, we can halt CRE
infections before they become widespread in hospitals
and other medical facilities and potentially spread to
otherwise healthy people outside of medical facilities.
Read more >> and download the Guidance for Control of Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE)
