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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2006-05-01
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Series: | Emerging Infectious Diseases |
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Online Access: | https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/5/05-0910_article |