Outbreak caused by a multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae clone carrying blaVIM-12 in a university hospital

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1005-1008

  Tokatlidou, Despina ^a   Tsivitanidou, Maria ^a   Pournaras, Spyros ^b   Ikonomidis, Alexandros ^b   Tsakris, Athanassios ^c   Sofianou, Danae ^a  

^a Aristotle University of Thessaloniki   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; CARBAPENEM; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; EDETIC ACID; ERTAPENEM; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; METRONIDAZOLE; NORFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SULTAMICILLIN; TETRACYCLINE; TIGECYCLINE; TIMENTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BLAVIM 12 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISK DIFFUSION; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INTEGRON; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

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

KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 40749139476     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01573-07     Document Type: Article

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