| Literature DB >> 22290949 |
Martin Hoenigl1, Thomas Valentin, Gernot Zarfel, Benjamin Wuerstl, Eva Leitner, Helmut J F Salzer, Josefa Posch, Robert Krause, Andrea J Grisold.
Abstract
To date, no outbreak of carbapenemase-producing bacteria has been reported for Austria. While outbreaks of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-producing K. pneumoniae have been increasingly reported, no outbreak caused by KPC-producing Klebsiella oxytoca has been described yet, to the best of our knowledge. We report an outbreak of KPC-producing K. oxytoca. In 5 months, 31 KPC-producing Klebsiella oxytoca strains were isolated from five patients. All patients were admitted to the same medical intensive care unit in Austria.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22290949 PMCID: PMC3318378 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.05440-11
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191