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Clinical and bacteriologic epidemiology of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae in a medical intensive care unit.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Oct 1998
Decré D, Gachot B, Lucet J C, Arlet G, Bergogne-Bérézin E, Régnier B
Abstract excerpt
The epidemiology of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae was studied over a 16-month period in a medical intensive care unit (ICU). A control program involving enhanced isolation procedures, surveillance cultures at admission and then at 1-week intervals, and selective digestive decontamination (SDD) was instituted. Phenotypic and genotypic markers (plasmid content...
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