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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, December 1999, p. 4167-4169, Vol. 37, No. 12
0095-1137/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Molecular Epidemiology of a Cluster of Cases Due to Klebsiella pneumoniae Producing SHV-5 Extended-Spectrum beta -Lactamase in the Premature Intensive Care Unit of a Hungarian Hospital

Dóra Szabó,1,* Zsolt Filetóth,2 Julianna Szentandrássy,3 Mária Némedi,4 Erzsébet Tóth,4 Csaba Jeney,1 Gyula Kispál,3 and Ferenc Rozgonyi1

Institute of Microbiology, Semmelweis University of Medicine,1 and Clinical Epidemiology Unit of the National Institute of Traumatology,2 Budapest, and Microbiological Laboratory3 and Premature Intensive Care Unit,4 "Géza Hetényi" County Hospital, Szolnok, Hungary

Received 6 May 1999/Returned for modification 29 July 1999/Accepted 7 September 1999

Fifteen nosocomial cases of extended-spectrum beta -lactamase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae occurred among 132 neonates in a premature intensive care unit in Hungary in June through November 1998. Fourteen strains were indistinguishable by molecular biological typing and harbored the same single conjugative extended-spectrum beta -lactamase-encoding plasmid that was spontaneously found in a Serratia marcescens strain in the same patient.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Institute of Microbiology, Semmelweis University of Medicine, P.O. Box 370, H-1445 Budapest, Hungary. Phone and fax: 36-1210-29-59. E-mail: szabdor{at}net.sote.hu.

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, December 1999, p. 4167-4169, Vol. 37, No. 12
0095-1137/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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