Clonal spreading of NDM-5 carbapenemase-producing Escherichia coli isolates in a hospital in South Korea

Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 2020 Jun;97(2):115027. doi: 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2020.115027. Epub 2020 Feb 21.

¹ Division of Bacterial Disease Research, Korea National Institute of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cheongju, Republic of Korea.
² Department of Molecular Cell Microbiology, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea.
³ Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 06591, Republic of Korea.
⁴ Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 06591, Republic of Korea; Precision Medicine Research Center, Integrated Research Center for Genome Polymorphism, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul 06591, Republic of Korea.
⁵ Department of Infection Control, Chungnam National University Hospital, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon 35015, Republic of Korea.
⁶ Division of Infectious Diseases, Chungnam National University Hospital, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon 35015, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: alice@cnuh.co.kr.
⁷ Department of Molecular Cell Microbiology, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Suwon 16419, Republic of Korea. Electronic address: ksko@skku.edu.

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Keywords: Carbapenemase-producing Escherichia coli; IncX3 plasmid; NDM-5.

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