Outbreak of a cluster with epidemic behavior due to Serratia marcescens after colistin administration in a hospital setting

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2295-2302

  Merkier, Andrea Karina ^a   Rodríguez, María Cecilia ^a   Togneri, Ana ^b   Brengi, Silvina ^c   Osuna, Carolina ^b   Pichel, Mariana ^c   Cassini, Marcelo H ^d   Centrón, Daniela ^a  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b Laboratorio de Bacteriología del Hospital Evita Lanús Servicio de Infectología del Hospital Evita ^*  (Argentina)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS   (Argentina)

^d Grupo GEMA Departamento de Ciencias Básicas Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; CEFALOTIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; GENTAMICIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TRIMETHOPRIM; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MENINGITIS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SERRATIA INFECTION; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ADULT; AGED; ARGENTINA; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; SERRATIA INFECTIONS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTIONS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARGENTINA; COLISTIN; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SERRATIA INFECTIONS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879425815     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.03280-12     Document Type: Article

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