Spread of KPC-producing carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae: The importance of super-spreaders and rectal KPC concentration

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 470.e1-470.e7

  Lerner, A ^a   Adler, A ^a   Abu Hanna, J ^a   Cohen Percia, S ^a   Kazma Matalon, M ^a   Carmeli, Y ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae; Environmental contamination; Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase; Rectal swabs; Super spreaders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANUS CONTINENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL SHEDDING; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CARBAPENEM RESISTANT ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE CARBAPENEMASE PRODUCING CARBAPENEM RESISTANT ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CHEMISTRY; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFECTS; ENZYMOLOGY; HETEROZYGOTE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSMISSION; VERY ELDERLY;

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CARBAPENEMASE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; CARRIER STATE; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECTUM;

EID: 84930526972     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2014.12.015     Document Type: Article

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