Extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a Neonatal unit: Control of an outbreak using a new ADSRRS technique

Polish Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 105-110

  Krawczyk, Beata ^a   Samet, Alfred ^b   Czarniak, Elzbieta ^b   Szczapa, Jerzy ^b   Kur, Józef ^a  

^a GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

ADSRRS fingerprinting; Enterobacteriaceae; ESBL; PCR fingerprinting; RAPD

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; DNA;

AMPLIFIED DNA FRAGMENTS SURROUNDING RARE RESTRICTION SITE FINGERPRINTING; AMPLIFIED RIBOSOMAL DNA RESTRICTION ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NONHUMAN; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE;

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 22844451158     PISSN: 17331331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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