Hospital-wide outbreaks of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae horizontally spread through a clonal plasmid harbouring blaIMP-1 in children's hospitals in Japan

Affiliations

• ¹ Japan-Thailand Research Collaboration Center on Emerging and Re-emerging Infections, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
• ² Department of Bacterial Infections, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
• ³ Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
• ⁴ Division of Infection Control and Prevention, Osaka University Hospital, Suita, Japan.
• ⁵ Department of Infection Control and Prevention, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
• ⁶ National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁷ Department of Neonatal Medicine, Osaka Women's and Children's Hospital, Osaka, Japan.
• ⁸ Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Osaka Women's and Children's Hospital, Osaka, Japan.
• ⁹ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Osaka Women's and Children's Hospital, Osaka, Japan.
• ¹⁰ Department of Infection Metagenomics, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.