A Long-Term Low-Frequency Hospital Outbreak of KPC-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Involving Intergenus Plasmid Diffusion and a Persisting Environmental Reservoir

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Tofteland, Ståle ^a   Naseer, Umaer ^b,c   Lislevand, Jan Helge ^a   Sundsfjord, Arnfinn ^b,c   Samuelsen, Ørjan ^b  

^a Sørlandet Hospital Health Enterprise   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL ENZYME; CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEMASE; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; RIFAMPICIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER ASBURIAE; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PREVALENCE; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PLASMIDS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84874839455     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059015     Document Type: Article

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