Outbreak of Klebsiella pneumoniae producing a new carbapenem-hydrolyzing class A β-lactamase, KPC-3, in a New York Medical Center

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 4793-4799

  Woodford, Neu ^a   Tierno Jr , Philip M ^b   Young, Katherine ^d   Tysall, Luke ^a   Palepou, Marie France I ^a   Ward, Elaina ^a   Painter, Ronald E ^d   Suber, Deborah F ^d   Shungu, Daniel ^d   Silver, Lynn L ^d   Inglima, Kenneth ^b   Kornblum, John ^c   Livermore, David M ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^d MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA LACTAMASE; CEFTAZIDIME; GENTAMICIN; HISTIDINE; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN; TAZOBACTAM; TETRACYCLINE; TYROSINE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONJUGATION; DRUG RESISTANCE; ELECTROPORATION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; IN VITRO SELECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MONITORING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-LACTAMASES; CARBAPENEMS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; HUMANS; ISOELECTRIC FOCUSING; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEW YORK CITY; PLASMIDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 9644265318     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.48.12.4793-4799.2004     Document Type: Article

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