The role of horizontal gene transfer in the dissemination of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates in an endemic setting

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 34-38

  Doi, Yohei ^a   Adams Haduch, Jennifer M ^a   Peleg, Anton Y ^b,c,d   D'Agata, Erika M C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clonal; Nursing homes; Plasmid; SHV 12; SHV 5

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZTREONAM; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERTAPENEM; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONAL VARIATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RECTUM; SHV 12 GENE; SHV 5 GENE;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARRIER STATE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FECES; FEMALE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOTYPE; HEALTH FACILITIES; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PLASMIDS;

EID: 84865280053     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: 18790070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2012.05.020     Document Type: Article

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