[header] How to avoid phantom menace bacteria [title] Communicate with your physician. [step] If you are hospitalized or become a patient in a healthcare facility, you are at a higher risk for cre. To help minimize your risk, be completely honest with your physician and the nursing staff about any symptoms, previous hospitalizations, recent surgeries, drug use, medications, and medical conditions you have. 
[substeps] Alert your doctor to any hospitalizations in other countries. Most of the cases of cre come from outside of the us.