Hospital outbreak of P. aeruginosa producing extended-spectrum oxacillinase OXA-19.

Pascal Cholley (1) , Didier Hocquet , Corentine Alauzet , Aurelie Cravoisy , Daniel Talon (1) , Aissa Nejla , Patrick Plesiat (2) , Xavier Bertrand (1)

1 LCE - Laboratoire Chrono-environnement (UMR 6249)
2 API - Agents pathogènes et inflammation - UFC (EA 4266)

This report describes the microbiological investigation of an outbreak of P. aeruginosa producing the extended-spectrum OXA-19 in a French university hospital. The 48 isolates producing OXA-19 recovered from 27 patients were clustered into 3 PFGE patterns. The blaOXA-19 gene responsible for OXA-19 was a part of class 1 integron.

Domaines: Bactériologie

Pascal Cholley, Didier Hocquet, Corentine Alauzet, Aurelie Cravoisy, Daniel Talon, et al.. Hospital outbreak of P. aeruginosa producing extended-spectrum oxacillinase OXA-19.. Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2010, epub ahead of print. ⟨10.1099/jmm.0.019364-0⟩. ⟨hal-00474830⟩