TY - JOUR
T1 - OXA-48 Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a Household Contact of a Previously Infected Patient
T2 - Person-to-Person Transmission or Coincidental Community Acquisition?
AU - Yusuf, Erlangga
AU - Huang, Te-Din
AU - Schallier, Anneleen
AU - Trémérie, Jean-Marie
AU - Mertens, Rembert
AU - Jans, Beatrice
AU - Glupczynski, Youri
AU - Piérard, Denis
PY - 2016/3
Y1 - 2016/3
N2 - We reported a woman with urinary-tract infection caused by OXA-48 producing Klebsiella pneumoniae. Using molecular techniques, we showed that she might acquire this bacterium from another family member who lived in the same house. The two isolates, although different by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and multilocus sequence typing, carried blaOXA-48 in a similar IncL/M plasmid. This case report shows that community spreading of carbapenemase producing Enterobacteriaceae occurs in the low endemic area not only in nosocomial setting but also in the community.
AB - We reported a woman with urinary-tract infection caused by OXA-48 producing Klebsiella pneumoniae. Using molecular techniques, we showed that she might acquire this bacterium from another family member who lived in the same house. The two isolates, although different by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and multilocus sequence typing, carried blaOXA-48 in a similar IncL/M plasmid. This case report shows that community spreading of carbapenemase producing Enterobacteriaceae occurs in the low endemic area not only in nosocomial setting but also in the community.
U2 - 10.1089/mdr.2015.0179
DO - 10.1089/mdr.2015.0179
M3 - Article
C2 - 26954370
SN - 1076-6294
VL - 22
SP - 134
EP - 136
JO - Microbial Drug Resistance
JF - Microbial Drug Resistance
IS - 2
ER -