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A metallo-beta-lactamase producing Enterobacteriaceae outbreak from a contaminated tea dispenser at a children’s hospital in Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Kenta Ito Open the ORCID record for Kenta Ito [Opens in a new window] ,
Hitoshi Honda ,
Makiko Yoshida ,
Kotaro Aoki ,
Yoshikazu Ishii ,
Shigeko Miyokawa  and
Yuho Horikoshi
Kenta Ito*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Tokyo Metropolitan Children’s Medical Center, Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan
Hitoshi Honda
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Medical Center, Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan
Makiko Yoshida
Affiliation:
Department of Infection Control and Laboratory Diagnostics, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
Kotaro Aoki
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Yoshikazu Ishii
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Toho University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Shigeko Miyokawa
Affiliation:
Department of Nursing, Tokyo Metropolitan Children’s Medical Center, Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan. (Present affiliation: Department of General Pediatrics, Aichi Children’s Health and Medical Center, Ohbu, Aichi, Japan [K.I.].)
Yuho Horikoshi*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Tokyo Metropolitan Children’s Medical Center, Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan
*
Author for correspondence: Kenta Ito MD, 2-8-29 Musashi-dai Fuchu-shi, Tokyo, Japan. E-mail: [email protected] Or Yuho Horikoshi MD, 2-8-29 Musashi-dai Fuchu-shi, Tokyo, Japan. E-mail: [email protected]
Author for correspondence: Kenta Ito MD, 2-8-29 Musashi-dai Fuchu-shi, Tokyo, Japan. E-mail: [email protected] Or Yuho Horikoshi MD, 2-8-29 Musashi-dai Fuchu-shi, Tokyo, Japan. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

An outbreak of metallo-β-lactamase (MBL) producing Klebsiella pneumoniae occurred at a children’s hospital in Japan. MBL-producing K. pneumoniae was detected in tea dispenser in the hospital, the use of which was associated with the acquisition of the MBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae. The outbreak ceased after use of the tea dispenser was banned.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 40 , Issue 2 , February 2019 , pp. 217 - 220
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© 2018 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved. 

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Footnotes

PREVIOUS PRESENTATION: These data were presented at IDWeek 2015, October 8, 2015, in San Diego, California, as the winning entry in the International Investigator Awards.

Cite this article: Ito K, et al. (2019) A metallo-beta-lactamase producing Enterobacteriaceae outbreak from a contaminated tea dispenser at a children’s hospital in Japan. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology 2019, 40, 217–220. doi: 10.1017/ice.2018.331

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