Risk factors for colonization and infection in a hospital outbreak caused by a strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae with reduced susceptibility to expanded-spectrum cephalosporins

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 4242-4249

  Cartelle, Monica ^a   Del Mar Tomas, Maria ^a   Pertega, Sonia ^b   Beceiro, Alejandro ^a   Dominguez, M Angeles ^c   Velasco, David ^a   Molina, Francisca ^a   Villanueva, Rosa ^a   Bou, German ^a,d  

^a Servicio de Microbiologia   (Spain)

^b Unidad de Epidemiologia Clinica   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL JUAN CANALEJO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; CEFAZOLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOTAXIME PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTAZIDIME PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; PALINDROMIC DNA; TEICOPLANIN; TICARCILLIN; TOBRAMYCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; RISK FACTOR; SEROTYPE;

CEPHALOSPORINS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FECES; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPAIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 4644352076     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.9.4242-4249.2004     Document Type: Article

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