Challenges of controlling a large outbreak of OXA-48 carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a French university hospital

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 248-253

  Semin Pelletier, B ^a   Cazet, L ^a   Bourigault, C ^a   Juvin, M E ^a   Boutoille, D ^a,b   Raffi, F ^a   Hourmant, M ^a   Blancho, G ^a   Agard, C ^a   Connault, J ^a   Corvec, S ^a,b   Caillon, J ^a,b   Batard, E ^a,b   Lepelletier, D ^a,b  

^a NANTES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Carbapenemase producing Klebsiella pneumoniae; Infection prevention and control; Outbreak; OXA 48

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CARBAPENEMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; CARBAPENEMASE PRODUCING KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; EPIDEMIC; FRANCE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHORT SURVEY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URINALYSIS; ADULT; AGED; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; SECRETION (PROCESS); TRANSMISSION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

BETA LACTAMASE; OXACILLINASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BETA-LACTAMASES; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; FEMALE; FRANCE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929292576     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: 15322939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2014.11.018     Document Type: Short Survey

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