Spread of NDM-5 and OXA-181 Carbapenemase-Producing Escherichia coli in Chad

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Ouchar Mahamat, Oumar | Lounnas, Manon | Hide, Mallorie | Tidjani, Abelsalam | Benavides, Julio | Diack, Abibatou | Somasse, Calèbe | Gamougam, Kadidja | Carrière, Christian | Decré, Dominique | Bañuls, Anne-Laure | Jean-Pierre, Hélène | Dumont, Yann | Compain, Fabrice | Godreuil, Sylvain

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International audience. We detected for the first time bla NDM-5 and bla OXA-181 in Escherichia coli isolates from hospitalized patients and healthy volunteers in Chad. These resistance genes were located on IncX3 and IncF plasmids. Despite the large diversity of E. coli clones, the identified resistant intestinal isolates belonged mainly to the same sequence type.

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