Contaminated handwashing sinks as the source of a clonal outbreak of KPC-2-producing Klebsiella oxytoca on a hematology ward

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 714-716

  Leitner, Eva ^a   Zarfel, Gernot ^a   Luxner, Josefa ^a   Herzog, Kathrin ^a   Pekard Amenitsch, Shiva ^b   Hoenigl, Martin ^a   Valentin, Thomas ^a   Feierl, Gebhard ^a   Grisold, Andrea J ^a   Högenauer, Christoph ^a   Sill, Heinz ^a,c   Krause, Robert ^a   Zollner Schwetzd, Ines ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b AUSTRIAN AGENCY FOR HEALTH AND FOOD SAFETY   (Austria)

^c Division of Hematology   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEMASE; BETA LACTAMASE; BETA-LACTAMASE KPC-2;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; EPIDEMIC; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; WARD; CROSS INFECTION; ENZYMOLOGY; HEMATOLOGY; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; MEDICAL DEVICE CONTAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

BETA-LACTAMASES; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HAND DISINFECTION; HEMATOLOGY; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA;

EID: 84920118714     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.04306-14     Document Type: Article

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