Emergence of a pandrug-resistant VIM-1-producing Providencia stuartii clonal strain causing an outbreak in a Greek intensive care unit

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 533-536

  Douka, Evangelia ^a   Perivolioti, Efstathia ^b   Kraniotaki, Elena ^b   Fountoulis, Kimon ^b   Economidou, Foteini ^a   Tsakris, Athanassios ^c   Skoutelis, Athanassios ^b   Routsi, Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

ICU; Outbreak; PFGE Pandrug resistant; Providencia stuartii

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BETA LACTAMASE; VIM-1 METALLO-BETA-LACTAMASE;

ADULT; AGED; CASE REPORT; CLASSIFICATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; ENZYMOLOGY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GREECE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTEGRON; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR TYPING; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; PROVIDENCIA; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SECRETION (PROCESS); TRANSMISSION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BETA-LACTAMASES; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GREECE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTEGRONS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR TYPING; PROVIDENCIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84939936228     PISSN: 09248579     EISSN: 18727913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2014.12.030     Document Type: Article

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