Zurfluh, Katrin Nüesch-Inderbinen, Magdalena T Poirel, Laurent Nordmann, Patrice Hächler, Herbert Stephan, Roger 2015 The emergence and worldwide spread of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae is of great concern to public health services. The aim of this study was to investigate the occurrence of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in the community in Switzerland.Findings: One thousand and eighty-six stool samples of healthy humans (staff members of a food-processing company which were screened for the occurrence of salmonellae) were collected in September 2014. After an initial enrichment-step, carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae were isolated from the carbapenem-containing selective medium SUPERCARBA II. Grown colonies from 11 samples were screened by PCR for the presence of bla KPC, bla NDM, bla OXA-48 and bla VIM. A single OXA-48-producing Escherichia coli was detected. Phylogenetic grouping and multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) revealed that this strain belonged to D:ST38, a type which had been previously reported in the UK, France, Lebanon and Egypt.Conclusions: The results of this study show that OXA-48-producing Enterobacteriaceae have started to spread into the community in Switzerland, and a continuous monitoring is necessary to better understand their dissemination in the human population as well as in animals and the environment. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/304992 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/304992/files/nor_eec.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1186/s13756-015-0051-x info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control. - 2016, vol. 4, p. 9 info:eu-repo/classification/udc/57 Emergence of Escherichia coli producing OXA-48 β-lactamase in the community in Switzerland http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501