1. Outbreak of NDM-1-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a neonatal unit in Colombia
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Maria Victoria Moncada Guayazán, Javier Antonio Escobar Pérez, Leslie Martinez de la Barrera, Ismael Alberto Valderrama Márquez, Natasha Vanegas Gómez, Narda María Olarte Escobar, Ricaurte Alejandro Marquez-Ortiz, Martha Isabel Garzón Aguilar, Betsy Castro-Cardozo, Esther Rocio Barrero Barreto, and Escobar-Pérez, Javier [0000-0002-0432-6978]
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Male ,Klebsiella pneumoniae ,Drug resistance ,Colombia ,Biology ,medicine.disease_cause ,beta-Lactamases ,Epidemiology and Surveillance ,Microbiology ,Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial ,medicine ,Humans ,Pharmacology (medical) ,Escherichia coli ,Sequence (medicine) ,Pharmacology ,Infant, Newborn ,Outbreak ,Servicios de salud del niño ,biology.organism_classification ,Virology ,Enterobacteriaceae ,Anti-Bacterial Agents ,Klebsiella Infections ,Molecular analysis ,Infectious Diseases ,Antibacterianos ,Multilocus sequence typing ,Female - Abstract
Six multiresistant, NDM-1-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae strains were recovered from an outbreak that affected six neonatal patients in a Colombian hospital. Molecular analysis showed that all of the isolates harbored the bla NDM-1 , qnrA , and intI1 genes and were clonally related. Multilocus sequence typing showed that the isolates belonged to a new sequence type (ST1043) that was different from the sequence types that had previously been reported. This is the first report of NDM-1-producing isolates in South America.
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- 2013