Outbreak of Nosocomial Sepsis and Pneumonia in a Newborn Intensive Care Unit by Multiresistant Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae High Impact on Mortality
- 1 November 2001
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
- Vol. 22 (11) , 725-728
- https://doi.org/10.1086/501855
Abstract
We describe a case-control study of a small outbreak of nosocomial sepsis and pneumonia with high mortality due to clonal dissemination of a multiresistantKlebsiella pneumoniaein the neonatal intensive care unit of a Mexican institution. Our study helped to change nosocomial infection control policy in this hospital.Keywords
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