Gert van der Hoek
In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
Eurosurveillance, Volume 17, Issue 7, 16 February 2012
Rapid communications
ISOLATION OF NDM-1-PRODUCING KLEBSIELLA PNEMONIAE IN IRELAND, JULY 2011
Date of submission: 20 January 2012
We report the identification of New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase 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 98kb 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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thanks to Dave Roberts
Rapid communications
ISOLATION OF NDM-1-PRODUCING KLEBSIELLA PNEMONIAE IN IRELAND, JULY 2011
Date of submission: 20 January 2012
We report the identification of New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase 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 98kb 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.
Read more
thanks to Dave Roberts