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The Transmissibility of Antibiotic-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae in Intensive Care Units
Author(s) -
Tanya Gurieva,
Mirjam J. D. Dautzenberg,
Marek Gniadkowski,
Lennie Derde,
Marc J. M. Bonten,
Martin Bootsma
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/cix825
Subject(s) - enterobacteriaceae , klebsiella pneumoniae , medicine , intensive care , serratia , microbiology and biotechnology , enterobacter , transmission (telecommunications) , citrobacter , cefotaxime , outbreak , klebsiella , escherichia coli , antibiotics , biology , intensive care medicine , bacteria , virology , pseudomonas , biochemistry , genetics , electrical engineering , gene , engineering
The global emergence of infections caused by Enterobacteriaceae resistant to expanded-spectrum cephalosporins (ESCs) in intensive care units (ICUs) is, at least partly, driven by cross-transmission. Yet, individual transmission capacities of bacterial species have not been quantified.

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