Outbreak of infection with multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae carrying blaIMP-8 in a university medical center in Taiwan

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 4433-4439

  Yan, J J ^a   Ko, W C ^a   Tsai, S H ^a   Wu, H M ^a   Wu, J J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEM; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CEPHAMYCIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DNA; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; OFLOXACIN; PEFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TAIWAN; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; TAIWAN;

EID: 0035212394     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.12.4433-4439.2001     Document Type: Article

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