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Introduction of OXA-48-producing Enterobacteriaceae to Israeli hospitals by medical tourism
Author(s) -
Amos Adler,
Maya Shklyar,
Mitchell J. Schwaber,
Shiri NavonVenezia,
Yacoub Dhaher,
Rotem Edgar,
Ester Solter,
Shmuel Benenson,
Samira Masarwa,
Yehuda Carmeli
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124
H-Index - 194
eISSN - 1460-2091
pISSN - 0305-7453
DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkr382
Subject(s) - klebsiella oxytoca , plasmid , enterobacteriaceae , klebsiella pneumoniae , multilocus sequence typing , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , typing , genotyping , escherichia coli , molecular epidemiology , restriction fragment length polymorphism , genetics , genotype , gene
The carbapenemase OXA-48 has been reported from different Mediterranean countries. It is mostly encoded on a single plasmid in various Enterobacteriaceae species. We characterized the epidemiological and molecular features of OXA-48-producing Enterobacteriaceae (OPE) in Israel.

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