TY - JOUR AU - Bou, Germán AU - Saleta, Jesús Luis AU - Nieto, Juan Antonio Sáez AU - Tomás, Mar AU - Valdezate, Silvia AU - Sousa, Dolores AU - Lueiro, Francisco AU - Villanueva, Rosa AU - Pereira, Maria Jose AU - Llinares, Pedro T1 - Nosocomial Outbreaks Caused by Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. mesenteroides T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2008 VL - 14 IS - 6 SP - 968 SN - 1080-6059 AB - From July 2003 through October 2004, 42 patients became infected by strains of Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. mesenteroides (genotype 1) in different departments of Juan Canalejo Hospital in northwest Spain. During 2006, 6 inpatients, also in different departments of the hospital, became infected (genotypes 2–4). Parenteral nutrition was the likely source. KW - Leuconostoc KW - outbreak KW - nosocomial setting KW - parenteral nutrition KW - risk factors KW - vancomycin and antibiotic resistance KW - dispatch KW - Spain DO - 10.3201/eid1406.070581 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/14/6/07-0581_article ER - End of Reference