A retrospective study of hospital patients with catheter-associated asymptomatic bacteriuria (CA-ASB) caused by multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (MDRP) found that antibiotic treatment was a significant risk factor for subsequent infection, researchers reported in the American Journal of Infection Control.
The study, conducted by researchers in South Korea, found that, among 139 hospitalized patients with MDRP CA-ASB at a tertiary hospital in 2018, subsequent MDRP infections were observed in 37 (26.6%), including urinary tract infections (17.3%), pneumonia (4.3%), soft-tissue infection (3.6%), and bone and joint infection (1.4%). Of the 139 patients, 12 received active antibiotic treatment for MDRP and 60 received non-active antibiotic treatment.
Multivariate analysis showed…