The relevance of sink proximity to toilets on the detection of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase inside sink drains

We report a higher prevalence of bla(KPC) in patient room sink drains located next to toilets (87.0%) when compared with sink drains located farther away from toilets (21.7%) using direct polymerase chain reaction assay. However, culture methods were only able to recover bla(KPC)-positive isolates from 16% of polymerase chain reaction-positive drains. (C) 2018 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.