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Molecular-epidemiologic study on outbreak of colonization by extended spectrum β-lactamase producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in neonatal intensive care unit  

Jun, Nu-Lee (Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine)
Kim, Mi-Na (Department of Laboratory Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine)
Jeong, Jae-Sim (Department of Hospital Infection Control, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine)
Kim, Yang-Soo (Department of Hospital Infection Control, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine)
Kim, Ellen Ai-Rhan (Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine)
Kim, Ki-Soo (Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine)
Pi, Soo-Young (Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine)
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Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics / v.49, no.2, 2006 , pp. 150-156 More about this Journal
Abstract
Purpose : The aims of this study included assessment of molecular-epidemiologic features during an outbreak of colonization of extended spectrum ${\beta}$-lactamase producing Klebsiella pneumoniae(ESBL-KPN) and re-evaluation of their colonized status one year later. Methods : Rectal swab cultures for ESBL-KPN from all hospitalized infants and newly admitted infants were obtained during the outbreak of colonization from July to December, 2000. The pattern of XbaI-digested chromosomal DNA of isolates were analyzed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. Weekly rectal swab cultures were obtained during the outbreak until patients were either discharged or decolonized. Patients discharged after being colonized had follow up stool cultures a year later. Results : A total of 80 patients(28.5 percent) were colonized. Of those, 53 whose pulsed-field gel electrophoresis(PFGE) was possible only once, were ESBL-KPN grouped into six cluster clones and 10 single clones : 28 patients(52.8 percent) were colonized with type A, the most common clone, followed by type B in 11 patients(20.8 percent). Of those 12 patients in whom serial PFGE was done more than twice, type A was predominant. Narrowed-down in strains occurred from types A, B, C, D and three single clones at initiation of the study into types A and type B after three months of strict infection control. Among 75 patients(93.7 percent) who were sent home after being colonized, 30 patients were re-called for stool cultures a year later : All of them were decolonized. Conclusion : This study demonstrates the importance of infection control as the diversity of ESBL-KPN strains could be narrowed into fewer strains. Colonization of ESBL-KPN could be reversed upon return to the community.
Keywords
Extended spectrum ${\beta}$-lactamase producing K. pneumoniae; Pulsed-field-gel-electrophoresis; Colonization; Neonatal intensive care unit;
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