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PRO/EDR> NDM-5 carrying K. pneumoniae – Netherlands: nosocomial, no history of travel

Klebsiella pneumoniae -- NetherlandsBathoorn E, Rossen JW, Lokate Mette, Friedrich AW, Hammerum AM.Abstract----A New Delhi Metallo-beta-lactamase-5 (NDM-5)-producing ST16 _Klebsiella pneumoniae_ strain was isolated from a Dutch patient in a long-term care facility without recent travel history abroad. Core genome multilocus sequence typing (cgMLST) revealed that the Dutch isolate was clonally related to isolates detected in 4 patients in Denmark in 2014. Public health experts and clinicians need Read more [...]