Isolation of NDM-1-producing Klebsiella pnemoniae in Ireland, July 2011.

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Authors
McDermott, H
Morris, D
McArdle, E
O'Mahony, G
Kelly, S
Cormican, M
Cunney, R
Affiliation
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Children's University Hospital, Temple Street, Dublin, Ireland.
Issue Date
2012
MeSH
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Carbapenems
Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial
Female
Humans
India
Infant
Ireland
Klebsiella Infections
Klebsiella pneumoniae

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Isolation of NDM-1-producing Klebsiella pnemoniae in Ireland, July 2011. 2012, 17 (7): Euro Surveill.
Journal
Euro surveillance : bulletin européen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10147/247118
PubMed ID
22370013
Abstract
We report the identification of New Delhi metallo-betalactamase 1 (NDM-1)-producing Klebsiella pnemoniae in Ireland. The organism was resistant to multiple antibiotic classes, including carbapenems, and PCR and sequencing confirmed the presence of the blaNDM-1 gene, carried on a 98 kb plasmid. The organism was isolated from an infant, who was born in India and moved to Ireland at the age of four months. This is the first reported isolation of an NDM-1-producing Enterobacteriaceae strain in Ireland.
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Article
Language
en
ISSN
1560-7917
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