Detection of plasmid-mediated KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in Ottawa, Canada: Evidence of intrahospital transmission

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1920-1922

  Goldfarb, David ^a,c   Harvey, Sarah Beth ^b   Jessamine, Kelsi ^b   Jessamine, Peter ^a,b,c   Toye, Baldwin ^a,b,c   Desjardins, Marc ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMOXICILLIN; BACTERIAL ENZYME; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CARBAPENEMASE; CEFALEXIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIMETHATE; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERTAPENEM; GENTAMICIN; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; NITROFURANTOIN; TIGECYCLINE;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CANADA; CASE REPORT; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RECURRENT INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CANADA; CROSS INFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PLASMIDS;

KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 66749139021     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00098-09     Document Type: Article

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