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- Title
Containment of a country-wide outbreak of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in Israeli hospitals via a nationally implemented intervention.
- Authors
Schwaber, Mitchell J; Lev, Boaz; Israeli, Avi; Solter, Ester; Smollan, Gill; Rubinovitch, Bina; Shalit, Itamar; Carmeli, Yehuda; Israel Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Working Group
- Abstract
During 2006, Israeli hospitals faced a clonal outbreak of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae that was not controlled by local measures. A nationwide intervention was launched to contain the outbreak and to introduce a strategy to control future dissemination of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospitals.
- Publication
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2011, Vol 52, Issue 7, p848
- ISSN
1537-6591
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/cid/cir025