Against the onslaught of endemic carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae, the war is being lost on the Irish Front

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¹ Department of Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital Limerick, Limerick, Ireland; Centre for Interventions in Infection, Inflammation & Immunity (4i), Graduate-Entry Medical School, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. Electronic address: nualah.oconnell@hse.ie.
² Department of Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
³ Department of Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital Limerick, Limerick, Ireland; Centre for Interventions in Infection, Inflammation & Immunity (4i), Graduate-Entry Medical School, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
⁴ Centre for Interventions in Infection, Inflammation & Immunity (4i), Graduate-Entry Medical School, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.

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N H O'Connell et al. J Hosp Infect. 2014 Aug.

. 2014 Aug;87(4):247-8.

doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2014.05.011. Epub 2014 Jun 25.

¹ Department of Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital Limerick, Limerick, Ireland; Centre for Interventions in Infection, Inflammation & Immunity (4i), Graduate-Entry Medical School, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. Electronic address: nualah.oconnell@hse.ie.
² Department of Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
³ Department of Clinical Microbiology, University Hospital Limerick, Limerick, Ireland; Centre for Interventions in Infection, Inflammation & Immunity (4i), Graduate-Entry Medical School, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
⁴ Centre for Interventions in Infection, Inflammation & Immunity (4i), Graduate-Entry Medical School, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.

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Successful control of an outbreak of colonization by Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-producing K. pneumoniae sequence type 258 in a neonatal intensive care unit, Italy.
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