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Outbreak of NDM-1-producing Acinetobacter baumannii in France, January to May 2013

  • Decousser, Jean-Winoc Department of Virology, Bacteriology - Infection Control, Parasitology –Mycology, Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), University Hospital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France - University Paris East Créteil (UPEC), Faculty of Medicine, Créteil, France
  • Jansen, C. University Paris East Créteil (UPEC), Faculty of Medicine, Créteil, France - Infection Control, Prevention and Epidemiology Unit, AP-HP, University Hospital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France
  • Nordmann, Patrice INSERM U914 ‘Emerging Antibiotic Resistance’, Le-Kremlin-Bicêtre, France - Medical and Molecular Microbiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Science, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Emirian, A. Department of Virology, Bacteriology - Infection Control, Parasitology –Mycology, Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), University Hospital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France - University Paris East Créteil (UPEC), Faculty of Medicine, Créteil, France
  • Bonnin, R. A. INSERM U914 ‘Emerging Antibiotic Resistance’, Le-Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
  • Anais, L. Department of Virology, Bacteriology - Infection Control, Parasitology –Mycology, Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), University Hospital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France
  • Merle, J. C. Department of Anaesthesiology, AP-HP, University Hospital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France
  • Poirel, Laurent INSERM U914 ‘Emerging Antibiotic Resistance’, Le-Kremlin-Bicêtre, France - Medical and Molecular Microbiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Science, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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    01.08.2013
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  • Eurosurveillance. - 2013, vol. 18, no. 31, p. 20547
English We report the first outbreak of carbapenem-resistant NDM-1-producing Acinetobacter baumannii in Europe, in a French intensive-care unit in January to May 2013. The index patient was transferred from Algeria and led to the infection/colonisation of five additional patients. Concurrently, another imported case from Algeria was identified. The seven isolates were genetically indistinguishable, belonging to ST85. The blaNDM-1 carbapenemase gene was part of the chromosomally located composite transposon Tn125. This report underscores the growing concern about the spread of NDM-1-producing A. baumannii in Europe.
Faculty
Faculté des sciences et de médecine
Department
Médecine 3ème année
Language
  • English
Classification
Medicine
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