Against the onslaught of endemic carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae, the war is being lost on the Irish Front

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 247-248

  O'Connell, N H ^a,b   Power, L ^a   O'Gorman, A ^a   O'Connor, C ^a,b   Dunne, C P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLISTIN; GENTAMICIN; TIGECYCLINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAMASE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; CARBAPENEMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; HAND WASHING; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ENZYMOLOGY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; MALE; PROCEDURES; SECRETION (PROCESS);

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE;

EID: 84905107430     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: 15322939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2014.05.011     Document Type: Letter

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