Nosocomial outbreak due to extended-spectrum-beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacter cloacae in a cardiothoracic intensive care unit

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2365-2369

  Manzur, Adriana ^a,b   Tubau, Fe ^a   Pujol, Miquel ^a   Calatayud, Laura ^a   Dominguez, Maria Angeles ^a   Peña, Carmen ^a   Sora, Mercedes ^a   Gudiol, Francesc ^a   Ariza, Javier ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AZTREONAM; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLOXACILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TOBRAMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONE; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TRACHEOBRONCHITIS; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CORONARY CARE UNITS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; SPAIN;

ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 34548087044     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02546-06     Document Type: Article

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