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