Epidemiology of β-lactamase-producing pathogens

K Bush, PA Bradford - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
SUMMARY β-Lactam antibiotics have been widely used as therapeutic agents for the past
70 years, resulting in emergence of an abundance of β-lactam-inactivating β-lactamases …

NDM metallo-β-lactamases and their bacterial producers in health care settings

W Wu, Y Feng, G Tang, F Qiao… - Clinical microbiology …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (NDM) is a metallo-β-lactamase able to hydrolyze almost all
β-lactams. Twenty-four NDM variants have been identified in> 60 species of 11 bacterial …

Emerging antimicrobial-resistant high-risk Klebsiella pneumoniae clones ST307 and ST147

G Peirano, L Chen, BN Kreiswirth… - Antimicrobial agents and …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
There is an enormous global public health burden due to antimicrobial-resistant (AMR)
Klebsiella pneumoniae high-risk clones. K. pneumoniae ST307 and ST147 are recent …

Plasmid evolution in carbapenemase‐producing Enterobacteriaceae: a review

K Kopotsa, J Osei Sekyere… - Annals of the New York …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Carbapenem‐resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) have been listed by the WHO as high‐
priority pathogens owing to their high association with mortalities and morbidities …

Epidemiology of Carbapenem Resistance Determinants Identified in Meropenem-Nonsusceptible Enterobacterales Collected as Part of a Global Surveillance …

KM Kazmierczak, JA Karlowsky… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
To estimate the incidence of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE), a global
collection of 81,781 surveillance isolates of Enterobacterales collected from patients in 39 …

A snapshot of antimicrobial resistance in Mexico. Results from 47 centers from 20 states during a six-month period

E Garza-González, R Morfín-Otero… - plos One, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Aim We aimed to assess the resistance rates of antimicrobial-resistant, in bacterial
pathogens of epidemiological importance in 47 Mexican centers. Material and methods In …

[HTML][HTML] Klebsiella pneumoniae ST307 with blaoxa-181, South Africa, 2014–2016

M Lowe, MM Kock, J Coetzee, E Hoosien… - Emerging infectious …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Klebsiella pneumoniae sequence type (ST) 307 is an emerging global antimicrobial drug–
resistant clone. We used whole-genome sequencing and PCR to characterize K …

Update on the epidemiology of carbapenemases in Latin America and the Caribbean

JC García-Betancur, TM Appel, G Esparza… - Expert review of anti …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Carbapenemases are β-lactamases able to hydrolyze a wide range of β-lactam
antibiotics, including carbapenems. Carbapenemase production in Enterobacterales …

Polymyxin resistance in Enterobacterales: overview and epidemiology in the Americas

J Rodríguez-Santiago, P Cornejo-Juárez… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The worldwide spread of carbapenem-and polymyxin-resistant Enterobacterales represents
an urgent public-health threat. However, for most countries in the Americas, the available …

High prevalence of clonally related ST182 NDM-1-producing Enterobacter cloacae complex clinical isolates in Greece

K Gartzonika, L Politi, A Mavroidi, AG Tsantes… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
ABSTRACT NDM-type metallo-β-lactamase (MBL)-producing Enterobacterales remain
uncommon in the European region, especially among species other than Klebsiella …