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New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase 1-producing Enterobacteriaceae: emergence and response in Europe.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin - 18 Nov 2010
Struelens M J, Monnet D L, Magiorakos A P, Santos O'Connor F, Giesecke J
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Acquired carbapenemases confer extensive antibiotic resistance to Enterobacteriaceae and represent a public health threat. A novel acquired carbapenemase, New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase 1 (NDM-1), has recently been described in the United Kingdom and Sweden, mostly in patients who had received care on the Indian subcontinent. We conducted a survey among 29 European countries (the European Union Member States,...
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