Article
Molecular epidemiology of Klebsiella pneumoniae strains that produce SHV-4 beta-lactamase and which were isolated in 14 French hospitals.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Oct 1994
Arlet G, Rouveau M, Casin I, Bouvet P J, Lagrange P H, Philippon A
Abstract excerpt
Preliminary results suggested that the diffusion in France of the SHV-4 extended-spectrum beta-lactamase was probably due to the spread of one single epidemic strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae. In this study, we tested various phenotypic and genotypic markers to compare K. pneumoniae strains produc...
Topics
- Conjugation, Genetic
- DNA Fingerprinting
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field
- France
- Hospitals
- Humans
- Isoelectric Focusing
- Klebsiella pneumoniae
- Microbial Sensitivity Tests
- Phenotype
- Plasmids
- RNA, Ribosomal
- beta-Lactamases