A major monoclonal hospital outbreak of NDM-1-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST340 and the first report of ST2570 in Brazil

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2019 Apr;40(4):492-494. doi: 10.1017/ice.2018.333. Epub 2019 Feb 22.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Brazil / epidemiology
  • Cross Infection / microbiology
  • Disease Outbreaks
  • Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
  • Humans
  • Klebsiella Infections / epidemiology
  • Klebsiella Infections / microbiology*
  • Klebsiella pneumoniae / genetics*
  • Klebsiella pneumoniae / isolation & purification*
  • Microbial Sensitivity Tests
  • beta-Lactamases / genetics
  • beta-Lactamases / isolation & purification*

Substances

  • beta-Lactamases
  • beta-lactamase NDM-1