Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
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Clin. Microbiol. Infect. · Sep 2018
Neonatal intestinal colonization with extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae-a 5-year follow-up study.
To analyse Klebsiella pneumoniae (KP) isolates from an outbreak of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing KP and Escherichia coli (EC) among infants admitted to neonatal intensive care units and to determine the duration of the intestinal colonization. ⋯ Two years after discharge, almost one fourth of the study participants were ESBL/KP-EC carriers. ESBL-KP sequence type 101 persisted in two of 13 children for 23 to 26 months. One patient was colonized with ESBL-EC at age 5 years.