Serratia infections: from military experiments to current practice

SD Mahlen - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
Serratia species, in particular Serratia marcescens, are significant human pathogens. S.
marcescens has a long and interesting taxonomic, medical experimentation, military …

Application of molecular techniques to the study of hospital infection

A Singh, RV Goering, S Simjee, SL Foley… - Clinical microbiology …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
Nosocomial infections are an important source of morbidity and mortality in hospital settings,
afflicting an estimated 2 million patients in United States each year. This number represents …

First report of the emergence of CTX-M-type extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) as the predominant ESBL isolated in a US health care system

JS Lewis, M Herrera, B Wickes… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2007 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT CTX-M-type extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) have become
increasingly common worldwide, with the notable exception of the United States, where TEM …

Human Pathogen Shown to Cause Disease in the Threatened Eklhorn Coral Acropora palmata

KP Sutherland, S Shaban, JL Joyner, JW Porter… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Coral reefs are in severe decline. Infections by the human pathogen Serratia marcescens
have contributed to precipitous losses in the common Caribbean elkhorn coral, Acropora …

Changing epidemiology of KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in Argentina: Emergence of hypermucoviscous ST25 and high-risk clone ST307

D Cejas, A Elena, DG Nuñez, PS Platero… - Journal of global …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objectives To assess the epidemiological features of 76 Klebsiella pneumoniae
carbapenemase (KPC)-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (KPC-Kp) isolates recovered from …

Outbreak of Klebsiella pneumoniae ST11 resistant to ceftazidime-avibactam producing KPC-31 and the novel variant KPC-115 during COVID-19 pandemic in …

F Nicola, D Cejas, F González-Espinosa… - Microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
We describe an outbreak of Klebsiella pneumoniae sequence type 11 (ST11) producing
KPC variants resistant to ceftazidime-avibactam. Six patients hospitalized in the intensive …

Human sewage identified as likely source of white pox disease of the threatened Caribbean elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata

KP Sutherland, JW Porter, JW Turner… - Environmental …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Caribbean elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata, has been decimated in recent years, resulting
in the listing of this species as threatened under the United States Endangered Species Act …

Characterization of Epidemiologically Unrelated Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates from Four Continents by Use of Multilocus Sequence Ty**, Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis, and …

A Hamouda, BA Evans, KJ Towner… - Journal of clinical …, 2010 - Am Soc Microbiol
This study used a diverse collection of epidemiologically unrelated Acinetobacter baumannii
isolates to compare the robustness of a multilocus sequence ty** (MLST) scheme, based …

Outbreaks of Serratia marcescens in neonatal and pediatric intensive care units: clinical aspects, risk factors and management

A Voelz, A Müller, J Gillen, C Le, T Dresbach… - International journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
The following recommendations are derived from a systematic analysis of 34 Serratia
marcescens outbreaks described in 27 publications from neonatal and pediatric intensive …

Association of Antibiotic Resistance, Cell Adherence, and Biofilm Production with the Endemicity of Nosocomial Klebsiella pneumoniae

MD Alcántar-Curiel… - BioMed research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Klebsiella pneumoniae is a leading cause of multiple nosocomial infections, some of which
are associated with high mortality. The increasing prevalence of antibiotic‐resistant strains …