Outbreak of TEM-24-producing Enterobacter aerogenes in an intensive care unit and dissemination of the extended-spectrum β-lactamase to other members of the family Enterobacteriaceae

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 76-79

  Neuwirth, Catherine ^a   Siebor, Eliane ^a   Lopez, José ^a   Pechinot, André ^a   Kazmierczak, Antoine ^a  

^a HÔPITAL DU BOCAGE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITROBACTER FREUNDII; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BETA LACTAMASE;

ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; EPIDEMIC; GENOTYPE; INTENSIVE CARE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ANTIBIOTICS, LACTAM; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FRANCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0029655697     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.34.1.76-79.1996     Document Type: Article

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