Wastewater drainage system as an occult reservoir in a protracted clonal outbreak due to metallo-β-lactamase-producing Klebsiella oxytoca

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Vergara Lopez S ^a   Dominguez M C ^a   Conejo, M C ^b   Pascual, Á ^b,c   Rodriguez Bano J ^b,c  

^a Hospital La Merced   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN MACARENA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Carbapenemase; Environmental reservoir; IMP 8; Klebsiella oxytoca; Outbreak

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; FOSFOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TIGECYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE CARRIER; DISINFECTION; EPIDEMIC; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA INFECTION; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; LAND DRAINAGE; MULTI DRUG RESISTANT KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; WASTE WATER;

KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA;

CARBAPENEMASE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESERVOIR; IMP-8; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; OUTBREAK;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPAIN; WASTE WATER;

EID: 84885471977     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-0691.12288     Document Type: Article

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