TY - JOUR AU - Moussounda, Mesmin AU - Diene, Seydina AU - Dos Santos, Sandra AU - Goudeau, Alain AU - François, Patrice AU - van der Mee-Marquet, Nathalie T1 - Emergence of blaNDM-7–Producing Enterobacteriaceae in Gabon, 2016 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2017 VL - 23 IS - 2 SP - 356 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Reports of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Africa remain rare and assess mostly blaOXA-48–producing isolates from Mediterranean countries and South Africa. We identified blaNDM-7–producing Enterobacteriaceae in Gabon in 2016. The isolates contained blaNDM-7 IncX3 plasmids that were unusual and similar to the one described in a colistin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae SZ04 isolate from China. KW - blaNDM-7 KW - Klebsiella pneumoniae KW - Enterobacter cloacae KW - carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae KW - carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae KW - Gabon KW - Central Africa KW - Africa KW - bacteria DO - 10.3201/eid2302.161182 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/23/2/16-1182_article ER - End of Reference