Objective  To investigate the clinical characteristics and drug resistance changes of nosocomial infection caused by carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) in different types of clinical departments, and to provide evidence for prevention and control of CRKP infection. Methods  The hospital infection real-time monitoring system was used to retrospectively collect the inpatients with CRKP nosocomial infection in the First People’s Hospital of Lianyungang from January 2019 to December 2023 as the research objects. According to the different sources of departments, they were divided into intensive care unit (ICU) group, internal medicine group and surgery group. The changes of clinical characteristics and drug resistance to common antibiotics were analyzed. Results  A total of 636188 inpatients were monitored, and 225 cases were infected with CRKP, with an overall infection detection rate of 0.035%. The detection rates of CRKP infection in the ICU group, internal medicine group, and surgery group were 0.736% (138/18749), 0.013% (44/336777), and 0.015% (43/280662), respectively, with the ICU group demonstrating a significantly higher rate than the other groups (P<0.05). The detection rates fluctuated in the early stage and then decreased rapidly in different years. The main infection site of CRKP in all groups was lower respiratory tract, but the proportion of device-related infections in the ICU group was higher than that in the internal medicine and surgery groups (P<0.05). In terms of the infected population, there was no significant difference in gender among groups (P>0.05) with the proportion of males more than 60%, while the difference in the proportion of patients aged ≥65 years among groups was statistically significant (P<0.05), with the highest in the internal medicine group (86.36%). The burden of underlying diseases and invasive operation exposure of the infected patients were high, and the proportion of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and indwelling catheters were as high as 69.33% and 83.56%, respectively. The differences in the proportions of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus, ≥3 underlying diseases, and surgical and invasive procedures among groups were statistically significant (P<0.05). The distribution of infection specimens in each group showed no statistically significant difference (P>0.05), with sputum, blood, and mid-stream urine specimens being the main detected specimens in all groups. The resistance rates of CRKP to penicillins and cephalosporins were more than 93%, and the resistance rates to aminoglycosides and sulfonamides were relatively low and showed a decline year by year. The resistance rate to ceftazidime/avibactam was only 7.41%, but the resistance rate to tigecycline increased. The difference in resistance rate of CRKP to co-trimoxazole among groups was statistically significant (P<0.05), while the differences in resistance to other antimicrobial agents were not statistically significant (P>0.05). Conclusions  The detection rate, clinical characteristics and drug resistance of CRKP infection in different types of departments of medical institutions are different and changing. It is necessary to strengthen the rational use of antibiotics and the prevention and control of nosocomial infection.

Citation： KONG Xiaoming, CHEN Yanan. Characteristics and drug resistance changes of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in different types of departments. West China Medical Journal, 2025, 40(3): 363-369. doi: 10.7507/1002-0179.202501174 Copy

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