Outbreak of septicaemic cases caused by Acinetobacter ursingii in a neonatal intensive care unit

International Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 300, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 338-340

  Máder, Krisztina ^a   Terhes, Gabriella ^a   Hajdú, Edit ^a   Urbán, Edit ^a   Sóki, József ^a   Magyar, Tibor ^b   Márialigeti, Károly ^c   Katona, Márta ^a   Nagy, Elisabeth ^a   Túri, Sándor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

A. ursingii; Neonate; Nosocomial; Septicaemia

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DNA 16S; DOXYCYCLINE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; NETILMICIN; PENTOXIFYLLINE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SULTAMICILLIN; TEICOPLANIN; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER URSINGII; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CASE REPORT; DEATH; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NONHUMAN; PREMATURITY; SEPTICEMIA;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77952320077     PISSN: 14384221     EISSN: 16180607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2009.10.007     Document Type: Article

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