Volume 18, Number 8—August 2012
Letter
Klebsiella pneumoniae Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteria in Hospital, Singapore
Indumathi Venkatachalam
, Jeanette Teo, Michelle N.D. Balm, Dale A. Fisher, Roland Jureen, and Raymond T.P. Lin
, Jeanette Teo, Michelle N.D. Balm, Dale A. Fisher, Roland Jureen, and Raymond T.P. LinTable
Bacteria isolated on CHROMagar in screening for carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae, Singapore, 2011*
| Organism | No. isolated |
|---|---|
| Enterobacteriaceae | |
| Klebsiella pneumoniae | 11 |
| Enterobacter cloacae | 3 |
| Enterobacter aerogenes | 2 |
| Proteus mirabilis | 2 |
| Escherichia coli | 1 |
| Serratia marcescens | 1 |
| Non-Enterobacteriaceae: gram-negative nonfermenters | |
| Pseudomonas aeruginosa | 20 |
| Acinetobacter baumannii | 17 |
| Stenotrophomonas maltophilia | 13 |
| Elizabethkingia meningoseptica | 3 |
| Wautersiella falsenii | 1 |
| Enterococci | |
| Enterococcus gallinarum | 4 |
| Enterococcus faecalis | 1 |
*CHROMagar, Paris, France.
