First outbreak of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae carrying blaVIM-1 and blaSHV-5 in a French University Hospital

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 142-145

  Kassis Chikhani, Najiby ^a   Decré, Dominique ^b   Gautier, Valérie ^b   Burghoffer, Béatrice ^b   Saliba, Faouzi ^a   Mathieu, Daniele ^a   Samuel, Didier ^a   Castaing, Denis ^a   Petit, Jean Claude ^b   Dussaix, Elisabeth ^a   Arlet, Guillaume ^b  

^a HÔPITAL PAUL BROUSSE   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Class I integrons; Imipenem resistance; Liver transplants

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; BETA LACTAMASE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; EDETIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TAZOBACTAM; TETRACYCLINE;

AGAR GEL DIFFUSION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRANCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTEGRON; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRANCE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS;

EID: 30344453073     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dki389     Document Type: Article

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