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SUBMITTER: D'Andrea MM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3147842 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
D'Andrea Marco Maria MM Venturelli Claudia C Giani Tommaso T Arena Fabio F Conte Viola V Bresciani Paola P Rumpianesi Fabio F Pantosti Annalisa A Narni Franco F Rossolini Gian Maria GM
Journal of clinical microbiology 20110427 7
We report on the first detection of the NDM-1 carbapenemase in Italy, in Escherichia coli isolated in October 2009. Prolonged colonization and relapsing infection by NDM-1-positive E. coli were observed in a patient (index case) with an indirect epidemiological link with areas of endemicity. Transient colonization was apparently observed in another patient linked with the index case. ...[more]