Evaluation of the Xpert Carba-R (Cepheid) Assay Using Contrived Bronchial Specimens from Patients with Suspicion of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia for the Detection of Prevalent Carbapenemases

• Almudena Burillo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Almudena Burillo, Mercedes Marín, Jesús Oteo, Emilio Bouza

  * E-mail: almudena.burillo@gmail.com

  Affiliations Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, Medicine Department, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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• Mercedes Marín ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Almudena Burillo, Mercedes Marín, Jesús Oteo, Emilio Bouza

  Affiliations Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, Medicine Department, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES CB06/06/0058), Madrid, Spain

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• Emilia Cercenado ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, Medicine Department, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES CB06/06/0058), Madrid, Spain

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• Guillermo Ruiz-Carrascoso ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Microbiology Department, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain

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• María Jesús Pérez-Granda ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Unit, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES CB06/06/0058), Madrid, Spain

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• Jesús Oteo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Almudena Burillo, Mercedes Marín, Jesús Oteo, Emilio Bouza

  Affiliation Antibiotic Laboratory, Bacteriology Department, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Spain

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• Emilio Bouza

  Contributed equally to this work with: Almudena Burillo, Mercedes Marín, Jesús Oteo, Emilio Bouza

  Affiliations Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Department, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, Medicine Department, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES CB06/06/0058), Madrid, Spain

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