Large oligoclonal outbreak due to klebsiella pneumoniae ST14 and ST26 producing the FOX-7 AmpC β-lactamase in a neonatal intensive care unit

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4067-4072

  Arena, Fabio ^a   Giani, Tommaso ^a   Becucci, Elisa ^a   Conte, Viola ^a   Zanelli, Giacomo ^a   D'Andrea, Marco Maria ^a   Buonocore, Giuseppe ^a   Bagnoli, Franco ^b   Zanchi, Alessandra ^a   Montagnani, Francesca ^a   Rossolini, Gian Maria ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE AMPC; CARBAPENEM; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; ERTAPENEM; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN K35; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN K36; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PROTEIN FOX 7; TIGECYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLONAL SPECIES; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; EPIDEMIC; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; ITALY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; BETA-LACTAMS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; ITALY; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR TYPING;

EID: 84889815705     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01982-13     Document Type: Article

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