Study of an outbreak of cefoxitin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in a general hospital | Zendy

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Study of an outbreak of cefoxitin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in a general hospital

Author(s) -

Maria Gazouli,

M E Kaufmann,

Εva Tzelepi,

H. Dimopoulou,

O. Paniara,

L. S. Tzouvelekis

Publication year - 1997

Publication title -

journal of clinical microbiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.349

H-Index - 255

eISSN - 1070-633X

pISSN - 0095-1137

DOI - 10.1128/jcm.35.2.508-510.1997

Subject(s) - cefoxitin , klebsiella pneumoniae , microbiology and biotechnology , ribotyping , outbreak , penicillin , biology , klebsiella , pulsed field gel electrophoresis , virology , antibiotics , genotype , bacteria , escherichia coli , biochemistry , gene , genetics , staphylococcus aureus

During a 3-month period, six Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates resistant to cefoxitin and penicillin-inhibitor combinations were derived from patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Athens, Greece. Enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus PCR and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis provided evidence of the clonal origin of the isolates. Conventional techniques and ribotyping were inadequate in proving that the isolates were related. Resistance was due to a plasmidic class C beta-lactamase.

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