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Emergence of Escherichia coli producing OXA-48 β-lactamase in the community in Switzerland

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Title
Emergence of Escherichia coli producing OXA-48 β-lactamase in the community in Switzerland
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Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control, March 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13756-015-0051-x
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Katrin Zurfluh, Magdalena T Nüesch-Inderbinen, Laurent Poirel, Patrice Nordmann, Herbert Hächler, Roger Stephan

Abstract

The emergence and worldwide spread of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae is of great concern to public health services. The aim of this study was to investigate the occurrence of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in the community in Switzerland. One thousand and eighty-six stool samples of healthy humans (staff members of a food-processing company which were screened for the occurrence of salmonellae) were collected in September 2014. After an initial enrichment-step, carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae were isolated from the carbapenem-containing selective medium SUPERCARBA II. Grown colonies from 11 samples were screened by PCR for the presence of bla KPC, bla NDM, bla OXA-48 and bla VIM. A single OXA-48-producing Escherichia coli was detected. Phylogenetic grouping and multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) revealed that this strain belonged to D:ST38, a type which had been previously reported in the UK, France, Lebanon and Egypt. The results of this study show that OXA-48-producing Enterobacteriaceae have started to spread into the community in Switzerland, and a continuous monitoring is necessary to better understand their dissemination in the human population as well as in animals and the environment.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 1 1%
United States 1 1%
Switzerland 1 1%
Unknown 67 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 17%
Researcher 10 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 11%
Student > Bachelor 8 11%
Student > Master 7 10%
Other 14 20%
Unknown 11 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 15 21%
Immunology and Microbiology 11 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 10 14%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 11%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 4 6%
Other 5 7%
Unknown 17 24%
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