Molecular epidemiology of Klebsiella pneumoniae producing SHV-5 β-lactamase: Parallel outbreaks due to multiple plasmid transfer

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 564-568

  Prodinger, W M ^a   Fille, M ^a   Bauernfeind, A ^b   Stemplinger, I ^b   Amann, S ^b   Pfausler, B ^a   Lass Florl C ^a   Dierich, M P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

BETA LACTAMASE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; GENE TRANSFER; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; R PLASMID;

BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; R FACTORS;

EID: 0030063508     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.34.3.564-568.1996     Document Type: Article

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