Spread of NDM-1-Producing Enterobacteriaceae in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Istanbul, Turkey | Zendy

Laurent Poirel | Zendy; Mesut Yılmaz | Zendy; A Istanbullu | Zendy; Ferhat Arslan | Zendy; Ali Mert | Zendy; Sandrine Bernabeu | Zendy; Patrice Nordmann | Zendy

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Spread of NDM-1-Producing Enterobacteriaceae in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Istanbul, Turkey

Author(s) -

Laurent Poirel,

Mesut Yılmaz,

A Istanbullu,

Ferhat Arslan,

Ali Mert,

Sandrine Bernabeu,

Patrice Nordmann

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.07

H-Index - 259

eISSN - 1070-6283

pISSN - 0066-4804

DOI - 10.1128/aac.02047-13

Subject(s) - enterobacter cloacae , klebsiella pneumoniae , enterobacteriaceae , microbiology and biotechnology , neonatal intensive care unit , enterobacteriaceae infections , biology , clone (java method) , intensive care , escherichia coli , intensive care unit , medicine , pediatrics , intensive care medicine , gene , biochemistry

Twenty-two consecutive carbapenem-resistant enterobacterial isolates were recovered from patients hospitalized between January and April 2013 in different units at a university hospital in Istanbul, Turkey. These were Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates producing the carbapenemases OXA-48, NDM-1, and KPC-2, Enterobacter cloacae isolates producing NDM-1, and Escherichia coli isolates producing OXA-48. Most of the OXA-48-producing K. pneumoniae and all the NDM-1-producing E. cloacae were clonally related. The NDM-1-producing E. cloacae isolates recovered from a single neonatal intensive care unit corresponded to a single cluster, highlighting the spread of that clone in that setting.

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