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NDM-5 Carbapenemase-Encoding Gene in Multidrug-Resistant Clinical Isolates of Escherichia coli from Algeria |
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| Authors: | Asma Sassi Lotfi Loucif Sushim Kumar Gupta Mazouz Dekhil Houria Chettibi Jean-Marc Rolain |
| Affiliation: | aUnité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Émergentes (URMITE), UMR CNRS, IHU Méditerranée Infection, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Aix-Marseille-Université, Marseille, France;bDépartement de Biochimie, Faculté des Sciences, Université Badji Mokhtar, Annaba, Algeria;cLaboratoire Central de Microbiologie, CHU Annaba, Annaba, Algeria |
| Abstract: | Here, we report the first autochthonous cases of infections caused by blaNDM-5 New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli strains recovered from urine and blood specimens of three patients from Algeria between January 2012 and February 2013. The three isolates belong to sequence type 2659 and they coexpress blaCTX-M-15 with the blaTEM-1 and blaaadA2 genes. |
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