Large hospital outbreak of KPC-2-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae: Investigating mortality and the impact of screening for KPC-2 with polymerase chain reaction

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 179-185

  Ducomble, T ^a,b   Faucheux, S ^c   Helbig, U ^d   Kaisers, U X ^c   Konig B ^c   Knaust, A ^c   Lubbert C ^c   Moller I ^d   Rodloff, A C ^c   Schweickert, B ^a   Eckmanns, T ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d Local Public Health Department   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carriage; Colonization; Healthcare associated; Infection; Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase; Length of stay; Mortality; Outbreak; Polymerase chain reaction; Resistance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CARBAPENEMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; CHOLANGITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE CARBAPENEMASE 2 PRODUCING KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER ABSCESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERITONITIS; PNEUMONIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; GREECE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; METHODS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BETA-LACTAMASE KPC-2, KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; BETA-LACTAMASES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BETA-LACTAMASES; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GREECE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84925052224     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: 15322939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2014.11.012     Document Type: Article

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