1228. Risk Factors for Contamination with Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriales (CPE) in Exposed Hospital Drains in Ontario, Canada

Abstract

BackgroundHospital drains may be a source of CPE in patients. We determined prevalence of and risk factors for CPE contamination of hospital drains exposed to patients with CPE colonization/infection.MethodsWe cultured hand hygiene and patient use sink as well as tub/shower drains exposed to 310 inpatients colonized/infected with CPE in 10 Ontario hospitals. A multi-level logistic regression model was fitted to determine whether type of drain/room/unit was associated with CPE drain contamination. Drain and room occupant CPE isolates underwent Illumina whole-genome and MinION sequencing. Single nucleotide variant (SNV) phlogenomic analyses and plasmid characterization were performed.Results53/ Of the 1,209 drains, 53 (4%) at 7 (70%) hospitals yielded CPE. Patient room shower drains were significantly more likely to yield CPE than hand hygiene sink (OR 3.35, 95% CI 1.61–6.97) and patient use sink (OR 10.89, 95% CI 3.62–32.80) drains. Hand hygiene sink drains were significantly more likely to yield CPE than patient use sink drains (OR 3.26, 95% CI 1.05–10.13). 8 (15%) drain isolates matched the room occupant CPE gene/species; 24 (44%) matched the gene but not species, and 23 (42%) matched neither gene nor species. Among 13 drain/11 room occupant pairs with molecular comparisons to date, only 1/13 (8%) drain isolates matched the respective room occupant carbapenemase allele and replicon harboring the carbapenemase gene (IncN replicon harboring blaKPC-3). In addition, one drain isolate had a plasmid highly related to plasmids of 2 isolates from a patient occupying a room in an adjacent unit (IncN3 replicons harboring blaKPC-2). At another hospital, all 6 drain isolates were located on one unit and had an IncHI2A/HI2/TrfA replicon harboring blaNDM-1; 5 of these were E. cloacae ST66, with 0–3 SNV differences observed between isolates.ConclusionDifferent drain types have different risks of CPE contamination. In our setting, most drain contamination was not caused by recognized room occupants. Further investigation is needed to understand the sources of hospital drain CPE contamination.Disclosures All authors: No reported disclosures.