Abstract

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global threat. A better understanding of how antibiotic use and between-ward patient transfers (or connectivity) impact population-level AMR in hospital networks can help optimize antibiotic stewardship and infection control strategies. Here, we used a metapopulation framework to explain variations in the incidence of infections caused by 7 major bacterial species and their drug-resistant variants in a network of 357 hospital wards. We found that ward-level antibiotic consumption volume had a stronger influence on the incidence of the more resistant pathogens, while connectivity had the most influence on hospital-endemic species and carbapenem-resistant pathogens. Piperacillin-tazobactam consumption was the strongest predictor of the cumulative incidence of infections resistant to empirical sepsis therapy. Our data provide evidence that both antibiotic use and connectivity measurably influence hospital AMR. Finally, we provide a ranking of key antibiotics by their estimated population-level impact on AMR that might help inform antimicrobial stewardship strategies.

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All data and software code that support the findings of this study are available at: https://github.com/rasigadelab/metapop.

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  1. Julie Teresa Shapiro

    CIRI INSERM U1111, University of Lyon, Lyon, France
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  2. Gilles Leboucher

    Département de Pharmacie, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
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  3. Anne-Florence Myard-Dury

    Pôle de Santé Publique, Département d'Information Médicale, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
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  4. Pascale Girardo

    Institut des Agents Infectieux, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
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  5. Anatole Luzzati

    Institut des Agents Infectieux, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
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  6. Melissa Mary

    Institut des Agents Infectieux, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
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  7. Jean-François Sauzon

    Institut des Agents Infectieux, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
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  8. Bénédicte Lafay

    Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, CNRS, Villeurbanne, France
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  9. Olivier Dauwalder

    Institut des Agents Infectieux, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
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  10. Frederic Laurent

    CIRI INSERM U1111, University of Lyon, Lyon, France
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  11. Gerard Lina

    CIRI INSERM U1111, University of Lyon, Lyon, France
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  12. Christian Chidiac

    Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
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  13. Sandrine Couray-Targe

    Pôle de Santé Publique, Département d'Information Médicale, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
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  14. François Vandenesch

    CIRI INSERM U1111, University of Lyon, Lyon, France
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  15. Jean-Pierre Flandrois

    Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, CNRS, Villeurbanne, France
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  16. Jean-Philippe Rasigade

    CIRI INSERM U1111, University of Lyon, Lyon, France
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Funding

Fondation Innovations en Infectiologie (R18037CC)

  • Jean-Philippe Rasigade

French Laboratory of Excellence project ECOFECT (ANR-11-LABX-0048)

  • Julie Teresa Shapiro
  • Gilles Leboucher
  • François Vandenesch
  • Jean-Philippe Rasigade

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

Reviewing Editor

  1. Ben S Cooper, Mahidol University, Thailand

Version history

  1. Received: December 30, 2019
  2. Accepted: October 12, 2020
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: October 27, 2020 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: November 26, 2020 (version 2)

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© 2020, Shapiro et al.

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  1. Julie Teresa Shapiro
  2. Gilles Leboucher
  3. Anne-Florence Myard-Dury
  4. Pascale Girardo
  5. Anatole Luzzati
  6. Melissa Mary
  7. Jean-François Sauzon
  8. Bénédicte Lafay
  9. Olivier Dauwalder
  10. Frederic Laurent
  11. Gerard Lina
  12. Christian Chidiac
  13. Sandrine Couray-Targe
  14. François Vandenesch
  15. Jean-Pierre Flandrois
  16. Jean-Philippe Rasigade
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Metapopulation ecology links antibiotic resistance, consumption, and patient transfers in a network of hospital wards
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