Containment of an outbreak of KPC-3-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in Italy

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3986-3989

  Agodi, Antonella ^a   Voulgari, Evangelia ^b   Barchitta, Martina ^a   Politi, Leda ^b   Koumaki, Vasiliki ^b   Spanakis, Nicholas ^b   Giaquinta, Loredana ^c   Valenti, Giovanna ^a   Romeo, Maria Antonietta ^c   Tsakris, Athanassios ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c CANNIZZARO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZTREONAM; CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEMASE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERTAPENEM; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; TIGECYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISINFECTION; EPIDEMIC; HAND WASHING; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ITALY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; ITALY; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MOLECULAR TYPING;

KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 80355137196     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01242-11     Document Type: Article

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