Prolonged outbreak of KPC-3-producing Enterobacter cloacae and Klebsiella pneumoniae driven by multiple mechanisms of resistance transmission at a large academic burn center

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Kanamori, Hajime ^a,b   Parobek, Christian M ^a   Juliano, Jonathan J ^a   Van Duin, David ^a   Cairns, Bruce A ^b   Weber, David J ^a,b   Rutala, William A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Burn patients; Carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE); Health care associated infection; Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC); Outbreak; Whole genome sequencing

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BURN; CARBAPENEM RESISTANT ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; CONTROL STRATEGY; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; URINE CULTURE; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL GENOME; BURN UNIT; DRUG EFFECTS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GENETICS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NORTH CAROLINA; PATHOGENICITY;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAMASE; BETA-LACTAMASE KPC-3, ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; BETA-LACTAMASE KPC-3, KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; BURN UNITS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA;

EID: 85011068063     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01516-16     Document Type: Article

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