The emergence and spread of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) are a global health problem that is of great concern to public health services (1, 2). The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of CRE in three Nigerian hospitals and to characterize the resistance mechanisms of such isolates. A total of 218 consecutive clinical isolates of Enterobacteriaceae based on incl...

Background and Objective: Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) causes serious nosocomial and non-nosocomial infections. blaOxacillinases (OXA)-23 and blaOXA24/40 provide resistance to carbapenem antibiotics. The aim of this study was assessment of blaOXA-23 and blaOXA-24/40 in P. aeruginosa isolated from patients with nosocomial and non-nosocomial infections. Me...

INTRODUCTION bla(OXA-48) is a globally emerging carbapenemase-encoding gene. The progenitor of bla(OXA-48) appears to be a Shewanella species. The presence of the bla(OXA-48)-like gene was investigated for two Shewanella xiamenensis strains. METHODS Strain WCJ25 was recovered from post-surgical abdominal drainages, while S4 was the type strain of S. xiamenensis. Species identification for WCJ...

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We present the draft genome sequence of a blood culture isolate of OXA-48-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (sequence type 11 [ST11]) obtained in the course of a hospital outbreak in Spain. Sequence analysis showed 121 genes related to antibiotic and antiseptic resistance, including blaOXA-48, which was located in an IncL/M plasmid.

BACKGROUND Due to the overuse of antibiotics in livestock as a growth-promoting agent, the emergence of multi-antibiotic resistant bacteria is becoming a concern. OBJECTIVES In this study, we aimed to detect the presence and discover the molecular determinants of foodborne bacteria in retail sausages resistant towards the antibacterial agent amoxicillin-clavulanate. METHODS Two grams of sau...

145 spatial and temporal characteristics of magnetic reconnection will fuel the sometimes heated debate over what the phenomenon is like and what it can do. With the launch of NASA’s STEREO mission, expected later this year, larger baselines will become available, and there is hope that the study of solar-wind reconnection can be extended to much larger scales. At the smallest scales, NASA’s Ma...