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Multiresistant Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Causing an Outbreak of Nosocomial Bloodstream Infection
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2015
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This article describes an outbreak of bloodstream infection due to clonal dissemination of multiresistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in a neonatal area, during August 1999, in México City General Hospital. The intestinal tract was the likely reservoir, and intensification of Contact Precaution measures contained the outbreak.
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