Contaminated Handwashing Sinks as the Source of a Clonal Outbreak of KPC-2-Producing Klebsiella oxytoca on a Hematology Ward
| Autor: | Josefa Luxner, Christoph Högenauer, Gebhard Feierl, Kathrin A. T. Herzog, Robert Krause, Martin Hoenigl, Eva Leitner, Ines Zollner-Schwetz, Heinz Sill, Andrea J. Grisold, Thomas Valentin, Gernot Zarfel, Shiva Pekard-Amenitsch |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Hospital Departments
Biology beta-Lactamases Disease Outbreaks Microbiology Mechanisms of Resistance medicine Humans Pharmacology (medical) Hand disinfection Pharmacology Cross Infection Klebsiella oxytoca Outbreak Hematology biochemical phenomena metabolism and nutrition bacterial infections and mycoses medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Klebsiella Infections Infectious Diseases bacteria Equipment Contamination Genetic relatedness Klebsiella pneumonia Hand Disinfection |
| Zdroj: | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 59:714-716 |
| ISSN: | 1098-6596 0066-4804 |
| DOI: | 10.1128/aac.04306-14 |
| Popis: | We investigated sinks as possible sources of a prolonged Klebsiella pneumonia carbapenemase (KPC)-producing Klebsiella oxytoca outbreak. Seven carbapenem-resistant K. oxytoca isolates were identified in sink drains in 4 patient rooms and in the medication room. Investigations for resistance genes and genetic relatedness of patient and environmental isolates revealed that all the isolates harbored the bla KPC-2 and bla TEM-1 genes and were genetically indistinguishable. We describe here a clonal outbreak caused by KPC-2-producing K. oxytoca , and handwashing sinks were a possible reservoir. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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