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Emergence and spread of NDM-1 producer Enterobacteriaceae with contribution of IncX3 plasmids in the United Arab Emirates.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Jul 2013
Sonnevend Agnes, Al Baloushi Amna, Ghazawi Akela, Hashmey Rayhan, Girgis Safinaz, Hamadeh Mohammed Baraa, Al Haj Mohammed, Pál Tibor
Abstract excerpt
Among 28 clinically relevant, carbapenem non-susceptible Enterobacteriaceae isolates collected in 2009-2011 in the United Arab Emirates three Klebsiella pneumoniae, two Escherichia coli, one Enterobacter cloacae and one Citrobacter freundi were identified to produce NDM-1 carbapenemase. Unexpectedly, with the exception of a K. pneumoniae strain, sequence type ST11, originally acquired in India and subsequently...
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