• Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. · Apr 2012

    Nosocomial outbreak of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella oxytoca in Austria.

    • Martin Hoenigl, Thomas Valentin, Gernot Zarfel, Benjamin Wuerstl, Eva Leitner, Helmut J F Salzer, Josefa Posch, Robert Krause, and Andrea J Grisold.
    • Section of Infectious Diseases, Division of Pulmonology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
    • Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 2012 Apr 1;56(4):2158-61.

    AbstractTo 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.

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