Emergence of blaNDM-7-Producing Enterobacteriaceae in Gabon, 2016

Emerg Infect Dis. 2017 Feb;23(2):356-358. doi: 10.3201/eid2302.161182.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Africa; Central Africa; Enterobacter cloacae; Gabon; Klebsiella pneumoniae; bacteria; blaNDM-7; carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae; carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae.

Publication types

  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging / epidemiology*
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging / history
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging / microbiology*
  • Enterobacteriaceae / classification
  • Enterobacteriaceae / genetics*
  • Enterobacteriaceae Infections / epidemiology*
  • Enterobacteriaceae Infections / history
  • Enterobacteriaceae Infections / microbiology*
  • Gabon / epidemiology
  • History, 21st Century
  • Humans
  • Microbial Sensitivity Tests
  • Multilocus Sequence Typing
  • Phylogeny
  • Prevalence
  • beta-Lactamases / biosynthesis
  • beta-Lactamases / genetics*

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • beta-Lactamases