Enterobacter cloacae in a neonatal intensive care unit: account of an outbreak and its relationship to use of third generation cephalosporins

1994 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 273-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Acolet ◽  
Z. Ahmet ◽  
E. Houang ◽  
R. Hurley ◽  
M.E. Kaufmann
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Enterobacter Cloacae ◽  
Third Generation ◽  
Third Generation Cephalosporins

Outbreak of multidrug-resistant CTX-M-15-producing Enterobacter cloacae in a neonatal intensive care unit

2013 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 571-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesús Oteo ◽  
Emilia Cercenado ◽  
Ana Vindel ◽  
Verónica Bautista ◽  
Sara Fernández-Romero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Enterobacter Cloacae ◽  
Multidrug Resistant

scholarly journals Molecular Epidemiology of an Outbreak of Enterobacter cloacae in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of a Provincial Hospital in Gauteng, South Africa

1998 ◽  
Vol 36 (10) ◽  
pp. 3085-3087 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. H. van Nierop ◽  
A. G. Duse ◽  
R. G. Stewart ◽  
Y. R. Bilgeri ◽  
H. J. Koornhof
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Enterobacter Cloacae ◽  
Blood Cultures ◽  
Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis ◽  
Provincial Hospital ◽  
Genotypic Cluster

An outbreak of Enterobacter cloacae in the neonatal intensive care unit of a provincial hospital in Gauteng, South Africa, resulting in nine deaths was investigated. Macrorestriction analysis using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis revealed that three isolates ofE. cloacae from blood cultures of patients, six from environmental sources, and one from the hands of a staff member belonged to the same genotypic cluster.

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