Contact Isolation Is Not Better than Standard Precautions for Decreasing Acquisition of ESBL-Producing Enterobacterales

Antibiotic consumption at the ward level did not differ between intervention protocols [ ]there was no difference in acquisition of ESBL-producing E coli (which made up 73% of cases) and K pneumonia between contact isolation and standard precautions [ ]the delay in laboratory turnaround time in reporting ESBL-E positive samples (median four days, range three to five days) led to delays in implementing contact isolation [ ]evidence suggests that patient-to-patient transmission is not the main pathway for the spread of ESBL-E