Giuseppe
Emeritus
[Source: Eurosurveillance, full text: (LINK). Abstract, edited.]
A Nemec (
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Citation style for this article: Nemec A, Krizova L. Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii carrying the NDM-1 gene, Czech Republic, 2011. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(11)
ii=20121. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20121
Date of submission: <HR>
To the editor: We read with interest the paper of Hrab?k et al. [1] on the isolation of a bla<SUB>NDM-1</SUB>-carrying Acinetobacter baumannii strain. However, although the authors believed to be the first in the Czech Republic to report on a New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-1 (NDM-1)-producing bacterium, there have been other reports on the same A. baumannii strain in the country [2,3]. Here, we would like to comment on some points of these studies. In our report published in a Czech national bulletin in September 2011 [2], we presented epidemiological and microbiological data on a high-level carbapenem-resistant strain (designated ANC 4097) isolated from a patient hospitalised in an intensive care unit in the Czech Republic. Based on the available information, we concluded that the strain had been imported to the Czech Republic from Egypt in mid-2011 [2].
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 17, Issue 11, 15 March 2012
Letters
Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii carrying the NDM-1 gene, Czech Republic, 2011
Letters
Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii carrying the NDM-1 gene, Czech Republic, 2011
A Nemec (
- Laboratory of Bacterial Genetics, Centre for Epidemiology and Microbiology, National Institute of Public Health, Prague, Czech Republic
Citation style for this article: Nemec A, Krizova L. Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii carrying the NDM-1 gene, Czech Republic, 2011. Euro Surveill. 2012;17(11)
ii=20121. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=20121 Date of submission: <HR>
To the editor: We read with interest the paper of Hrab?k et al. [1] on the isolation of a bla<SUB>NDM-1</SUB>-carrying Acinetobacter baumannii strain. However, although the authors believed to be the first in the Czech Republic to report on a New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-1 (NDM-1)-producing bacterium, there have been other reports on the same A. baumannii strain in the country [2,3]. Here, we would like to comment on some points of these studies. In our report published in a Czech national bulletin in September 2011 [2], we presented epidemiological and microbiological data on a high-level carbapenem-resistant strain (designated ANC 4097) isolated from a patient hospitalised in an intensive care unit in the Czech Republic. Based on the available information, we concluded that the strain had been imported to the Czech Republic from Egypt in mid-2011 [2].
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