CRE, which stands for carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae, are a family of germs that are difficult to treat because they have high levels of resistance to antibiotics.
Healthy people usually do not get CRE infections. They usually happen to patients in hospitals. Patients whose care requires devices like ventilators (breathing machines), urinary (bladder) catheters, or intravenous (vein) catheters and patients who are taking long courses of certain antibiotics are most at risk for CRE infections.
If CRE outbreak occur in a hospital, how to manage it properly?
Anyone can share their knowledge and experience?
Your CDC have to provide a protocol for such an event because it depends on many factors that expert persons in your country familiar with.
You can check other countries protocol and improve them for your.
Some of factors are common.
Such protocol needs many expertise from different area, bacteriologist, epidemiologist, and so on.
One person is not able to answer you.
Regards.
A great toolkit published by the CDC for that purpose. Im attaching a copy of the update
https://www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/publications/files/cretoolkit.pdf
Best wishes
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