Enterobacter cloacae Outbreak and Emergence of Quinolone Resistance Gene in Dutch Hospital

An outbreak of Enterobacter cloacae infections with variable susceptibility to fluoroquinolones occurred in the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands in 2002. Our investigation showed that a qnrA1 gene was present in 78 (94%) of 83 outbreak isolates and that a qnrA1-encoding plasmid t...

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Main Authors: Armand Paauw, Ad C. Fluit, Jan Verhoef, Maurine A. Leverstein-van Hall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2006-05-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/5/05-0910_article