Article
Sequence type ST131 and ST10 complex (ST617) predominant among CTX-M-15-producing Escherichia coli isolates from Nigeria.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 1 Mar 2012
Aibinu I, Odugbemi T, Koenig W, Ghebremedhin B
Abstract excerpt
Of 109 clinical Escherichia coli isolates from two major tertiary hospitals in Lagos (University Teaching Hospital and the National Orthopaedic Hospital Igbobi), 14 (12.8%) extended-spectrum beta-lactamse (ESBL) producers were characterized using PCR and sequencing, ERIC-PCR and multilocus sequence typing. All ESBL-producing isolates encoded only the CTX-M-15 gene. Clonal group ST131 (35.7%) was the predominant...
Topics
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Cluster Analysis
- DNA, Bacterial
- Drug Resistance, Bacterial
- Escherichia coli
- Escherichia coli Infections
- Genotype
- Hospitals
- Humans
- Molecular Epidemiology
