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SUBMITTER: Welker S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7678038 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Welker Sybille S Boutin Sébastien S Miethke Thomas T Heeg Klaus K Nurjadi Dennis D
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin 20201101 46
The dissemination of carbapenem-producing Gram-negative bacteria is a major public health concern. We report the first detection of OXA-244-producing ST131 O16:H5 <i>Escherichia coli</i> in three patients from two tertiary hospitals in the south-west of Germany. OXA-244 is emerging in Europe. Because of detection challenges, OXA-244-producing <i>E. coli</i> may be under-reported. The emergence of carbapenem resistance in a globally circulating high-risk clone, such as ST131 <i>E. coli</i> is of ...[more]