Outbreak of pan-susceptible Klebsiella pneumoniae in a neonatal intensive care unit

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 872-877

  Maltezou, Helena C ^a   Papacharalambous, Efthimia ^b   Tryfinopoulou, Kyriaki ^a   Ftika, Lemonia ^a   Maragos, Antonios ^a   Kyriakeli, Georgia ^b   Katerelos, Panos ^a   Trakateli, Christina ^b   Polemis, Michalis ^a   Roilides, Emmanuel ^b   Vatopoulos, Alkiviadis ^a   Nikolaidis, Nikolaos ^b  

^a Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Klebsiella pneumoniae; Neonate; NICU; Outbreak

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BIRTH WEIGHT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; MALE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; RISK FACTOR;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84885941059     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365548.2013.816441     Document Type: Article

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