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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 1998, p. 3085-3087, Vol. 36, No. 10
0095-1137/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

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

W. H. van Nierop,* A. G. Duse, R. G. Stewart, Y. R. Bilgeri, and H. J. Koornhof

Division of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control, South African Institute for Medical Research, Johannesburg, South Africa

Received 2 March 1998/Returned for modification 23 April 1998/Accepted 1 July 1998

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 of E. 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.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: P.O. Box 2115, Houghton, 2041, South Africa. Phone: (011) 4898577. Fax: (011) 4898530. E-mail: 174wim{at}chiron.wits.ac.za.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 1998, p. 3085-3087, Vol. 36, No. 10
0095-1137/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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