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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, doi:10.1093/jac/dkm439
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

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Antibiotic-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in Spain: analyses of 718 invasive isolates from 35 hospitals and report of one outbreak causedby an SHV-12-producing strain

Jesús Oteo1, Eugenio Garduño2, Verónica Bautista1, Oscar Cuevas1, José Campos on behalf of Spanish members of European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (EARSS)1,3,*,{dagger}

1 Antibiotic Laboratory, Bacteriology Service, Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Majadahonda, Madrid, Spain 2 Microbiology Department, Hospital Infanta Cristina, Badajoz, Spain 3 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain

* Corresponding author. Tel: +34-91-822-3650; Fax: +34-91-509-7966; E-mail: jcampos@isciii.es

Key Words: antibiotic resistance , blood infections , K. pneumoniae

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Sir,

Klebsiella pneumoniae is a well-recognized nosocomial pathogen causing blood, urinary tract and respiratory tract infections. Since the early 1990s, extended-spectrum ß-lactamase (ESBL)-producing and multiresistant K. pneumoniae isolates have rapidly emerged.1

The European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (EARSS) is an international network of national surveillance systems that attempts to collect reliable and comparable antimicrobial resistance data on invasive pathogens.2,3 Recently, K. pneumoniae has been included as one of the EARSS indicator organisms.

The goals of this surveillance study were to determine the antibiotic resistance prevalence of K. pneumoniae causing blood . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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