A Long-Term Low-Frequency Hospital Outbreak of KPC-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Involving Intergenus Plasmid Diffusion and a Persisting Environmental Reservoir

• Ståle Tofteland ,

  * E-mail: staale.tofteland@sshf.no

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Sørlandet Hospital HF, Kristiansand, Norway

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• Umaer Naseer,

  Affiliations Reference Centre for Detection of Antimicrobial Resistance, Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway, Research Group for Host-Microbe Interactions, Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

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• Jan Helge Lislevand,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Sørlandet Hospital HF, Kristiansand, Norway

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• Arnfinn Sundsfjord,

  Affiliations Reference Centre for Detection of Antimicrobial Resistance, Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway, Research Group for Host-Microbe Interactions, Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

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• Ørjan Samuelsen

  * E-mail: staale.tofteland@sshf.no

  Affiliation Reference Centre for Detection of Antimicrobial Resistance, Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway

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