Outbreak of ST395 KPC-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Palermo, Italy

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 496-498

  Maida, Carmelo M ^a   Bonura, Celestino ^a   Geraci, Daniela M ^a   Graziano, Giorgio ^a   Carattoli, Alessandra ^b   Rizzo, Angelo ^c   Torregrossa, Maria V ^a   Vecchio, Davide ^a   Giuffrè, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c Ospedale GF Ingrassia   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBAPENEMASE; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CARBAPENEMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; ITALY; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; GENETICS; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; KLEBSIELLA INFECTION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BETA-LACTAM RESISTANCE; CARBAPENEMS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; ITALY; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 85044616162     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2017.267     Document Type: Letter

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