Eradication of an extensive outbreak in a neonatal unit caused by two sequential Klebsiella pneumoniae clones harbouring related plasmids encoding an extended-spectrum β-lactamase

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 157-163

  Velasco, C ^a   Rodriguez Bano J ^b   Garcia L ^b   Diaz P ^a   Lupion C ^b   Duran L ^b   Pascual, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN MACARENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; Genotyping; Horizontal gene transfer; Nosocomial infection

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; GENTAMICIN; MEROPENEM; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISINFECTION; DRUG USE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; EPIDEMIC; ERADICATION THERAPY; HAND WASHING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEWBORN; PLASMID; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACTEREMIA; BETA-LACTAMASES; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION CONTROL; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PLASMIDS;

EID: 69749086379     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2009.06.013     Document Type: Article

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