Brandon Kitchel

Summary

Affiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Molecular epidemiology of KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates in the United States: clonal expansion of multilocus sequence type 258
    Brandon Kitchel
    Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother 53:3365-70. 2009
  2. ncbi Genetic factors associated with elevated carbapenem resistance in KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae
    Brandon Kitchel
    Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother 54:4201-7. 2010
  3. ncbi Regional dissemination of KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae
    Brandon Kitchel
    Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother 53:4511-3. 2009
  4. ncbi IMP-producing carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in the United States
    Brandi M Limbago
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd N E, MS C16, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA
    J Clin Microbiol 49:4239-45. 2011
  5. ncbi A rapid antimicrobial susceptibility test for Bacillus anthracis
    Linda M Weigel
    National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, MS G 08, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother 54:2793-800. 2010
  6. ncbi Outbreak of carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae at a long-term acute care hospital: sustained reductions in transmission through active surveillance and targeted interventions
    Amit S Chitnis
    Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 33:984-92. 2012

Detail Information

Publications6

  1. ncbi Molecular epidemiology of KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates in the United States: clonal expansion of multilocus sequence type 258
    Brandon Kitchel
    Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother 53:3365-70. 2009
    ..Restriction analysis of plasmid DNA prepared from transformants revealed a diversity of band patterns, suggesting the presence of different plasmids harboring the bla(KPC) gene, even among isolates of the same ST...
  2. ncbi Genetic factors associated with elevated carbapenem resistance in KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae
    Brandon Kitchel
    Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother 54:4201-7. 2010
    ..pneumoniae, particularly when coupled with OmpK36 porin loss...
  3. ncbi Regional dissemination of KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae
    Brandon Kitchel
    Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother 53:4511-3. 2009
    ..They were also unrelated to the dominant sequence type observed throughout the United States, multilocus sequence type 258. This could represent regional dissemination of another KPC-producing K. pneumoniae strain...
  4. ncbi IMP-producing carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in the United States
    Brandi M Limbago
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd N E, MS C16, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA
    J Clin Microbiol 49:4239-45. 2011
    ..PCR and sequence analysis confirmed that these isolates produce IMP-4, an MBL carbapenemase not previously published as present among Enterobacteriaceae in the United States...
  5. ncbi A rapid antimicrobial susceptibility test for Bacillus anthracis
    Linda M Weigel
    National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, MS G 08, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
    Antimicrob Agents Chemother 54:2793-800. 2010
    ....
  6. ncbi Outbreak of carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae at a long-term acute care hospital: sustained reductions in transmission through active surveillance and targeted interventions
    Amit S Chitnis
    Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 33:984-92. 2012
    ..To describe a Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-producing carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) outbreak and interventions to prevent transmission...