An outbreak of carbapenem-resistant OXA-48 - producing Klebsiella pneumonia associated to duodenoscopy

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Kola, Axel ^a   Piening, Brar ^a   Pape, Ulrich Frank ^a   Veltzke Schlieker, Wilfried ^a   Kaase, Martin ^b   Geffers, Christine ^a   Wiedenmann, Bertram ^a   Gastmeier, Petra ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbapenemases; Endoscopy; K. pneumoniae; Outbreak; OXA 48

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEMASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLAOXA 48 GENE; CARBAPENEM RESISTANT ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; CARBAPENEM RESISTANT KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; CARBAPENEMASE GENE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUODENOSCOPE; DUODENOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84931259744     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20472994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13756-015-0049-4     Document Type: Article

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