Polyclonal outbreak of KPC-3-producing Enterobacter cloacae at a single hospital in Montréal, Québec, Canada

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2406-2408

  Haraoui, Louis Patrick ^a   Lévesque, Simon ^b   Lefebvre, Brigitte ^b   Blanchette, Ruth ^a   Tomkinson, Melissa ^a   Mataseje, Laura ^c   Mulvey, Michael R ^c   Miller, Mark A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZTREONAM; CARBAPENEM; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERTAPENEM; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; TIGECYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; BETA LACTAMASE; BETA-LACTAMASE KPC-3, ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLAKPC GENE; CANADA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KPC 3 PRODUCING ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; MALE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; ENZYMOLOGY; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; SECRETION (PROCESS);

ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE;

BETA-LACTAMASES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PLASMIDS; QUEBEC;

EID: 84879433684     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02480-12     Document Type: Article

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