High Proportion of Intestinal Colonization with Successful Epidemic Clones of ESBL-Producing Enterobacteriaceae in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Ecuador

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Nordberg, Viveka ^a,b   Quizhpe Peralta, Arturo ^c,d   Galindo, Telmo ^c   Turlej Rogacka, Agata ^b   Iversen, Aina ^b   Giske, Christian G ^b   Navér, Lars ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE CUENCA   (Ecuador)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CARBAPENEMASE; CIPROFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; AUTOMATION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLACTX M GENE; BREAST FEEDING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECUADOR; ENTERIC FEEDING; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE FLORA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTOR; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BETA-LACTAMASES; CLONE CELLS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ECUADOR; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; INTESTINES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84885395865     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076597     Document Type: Article

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