The revolving door between hospital and community: Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli in Dublin

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 192-198

  Burke, L ^a   Humphreys, H ^a   Fitzgerald Hughes, D ^a  

^a BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Extended spectrum beta lactamase; O25b ST131 clone

Indexed keywords

EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLONE; COMMUNITY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CHILD; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRELAND; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862648414     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: 15322939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2012.04.021     Document Type: Article

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