Molecular Epidemiology of an Outbreak of <i>Enterobacter cloacae</i> in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of a Provincial Hospital in Gauteng, South Africa

Abstract

An outbreak of Enterobacter cloacae in the neonatal intensive care unit of a provincial hospital in Gauteng, South Africa, resulting in nine deaths was investigated. Macrorestriction analysis using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis revealed that three isolates of E. cloacae from blood cultures of patients, six from environmental sources, and one from the hands of a staff member belonged to the same genotypic cluster.