Outbreak of OXA-48 carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in Greece involving an ST11 clone

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 84-88

  Voulgari, Evangelia ^a   Zarkotou, Olympia ^b   Ranellou, Kyriaki ^a   Karageorgopoulos, Drosos E ^c   Vrioni, Georgia ^a   Mamali, Vasiliki ^b   Themeli Digalaki, Katerina ^b   Tsakris, Athanassios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b TZANEIO GENERAL HOSPITAL OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^c Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention   (Greece)

Author keywords

Clonal strains; K. Pneumoniae; Sequence types

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AZTREONAM; CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEMASE; CEFEPIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERTAPENEM; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; OXA 48 CARBAPENEMASE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PORIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GREECE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871247747     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dks356     Document Type: Article

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