Unmasking carbapenemases molecular patterns in Ecuador: An analysis of Gram-negative bacteria, 2014-2022

New Microbes New Infect. 2023 Dec 12:56:101211. doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2023.101211. eCollection 2024 Jan.

Jaime David Acosta-España^{1

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¹ Health Sciences Faculty, Universidad Internacional SEK (UISEK), Quito 170120, Ecuador.
² Postgraduate Program in Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica Del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuado.
³ Institute of Microbiology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany.
⁴ National Reference Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance (CRN-RAM), National Institute of Public Health Research of Ecuador (INSPI), Quito, Ecuador.
⁵ Postgraduate Program in Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica Del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
⁶ Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Científica Del Sur, Lima, 4861, Peru.
⁷ Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundacion Universitaria Autonoma de Las Americas-Institución Universitaria Visión de Las Américas, Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia.
⁸ Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Beirut, P.O. Box 36, Lebanon.

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Keywords: Antimicrobial treatment; Carbapenem resistance; Carbapenemases; Ecuador; Gram-negative; Molecular patterns; Surveillance.