Nosocomial outbreak of klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-producing klebsiella oxytoca in Austria

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2158-2161

  Hoenigl, Martin ^a   Valentin, Thomas ^a   Zarfel, Gernot ^a   Wuerstl, Benjamin ^b   Leitner, Eva ^a   Salzer, Helmut J F ^a   Posch, Josefa ^a   Krause, Robert ^a   Grisold, Andrea J ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEMASE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84858692229     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.05440-11     Document Type: Article

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