First isolation and outbreak of OXA-48-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in an Irish hospital, March to June 2011

D J O’Brien; C Wrenn; C Roche; L Rose; C Fenelon; A Flynn; V Murphy; S F FitzGerald; L E Fenelon; B Crowley; K Schaffer

doi:10.2807/ese.16.29.19921-en

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First isolation and outbreak of OXA-48-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in an Irish hospital, March to June 2011
D J O’Brien¹ , C Wrenn¹ , C Roche² , L Rose² , C Fenelon¹ , A Flynn¹ , V Murphy¹ , S F FitzGerald¹ , L E Fenelon¹ , B Crowley² , K Schaffer¹
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Affiliations: ¹ Department of Microbiology, St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland ² St. James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

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Citation style for this article: O’Brien D J, Wrenn C, Roche C, Rose L, Fenelon C, Flynn A, Murphy V, FitzGerald S F, Fenelon L E, Crowley B, Schaffer K. First isolation and outbreak of OXA-48-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in an Irish hospital, March to June 2011 . Euro Surveill. 2011;16(29):pii=19921. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.16.29.19921-en Received: 18 Jul 2011

Abstract

Five OXA-48-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae were detected in a tertiary referral hospital in Ireland between March and June 2011. They were found in the clinical isolates of five cases that were inpatients on general surgical wards. None of the cases had received healthcare at a facility outside of Ireland in the previous 12 months. This is the first report of OXA-48-producing K. pneumoniae in Ireland.