Outbreak of NDM-1-Producing Escherichia coli in a Coronavirus Disease 2019 Intensive Care Unit in a Mexican Tertiary Care Center

Outbreak of NDM-1-Producing Escherichia coli in a Coronavirus Disease 2019 Intensive Care Unit in a Mexican Tertiary Care Center

ABSTRACT Emergency department areas were repurposed as intensive care units (ICUs) for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome during the initial months of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We describe an outbreak of New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase 1 (NDM-1)-producing Escheri...

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Main Authors: Oscar A. Fernández-García, María F. González-Lara, Marco Villanueva-Reza, Nereyda de-León-Cividanes, Luis F. Xancal-Salvador, Verónica Esteban-Kenel, Ayleen Cárdenas-Ochoa, Axel Cervantes-Sánchez, Areli Martínez-Gamboa, Eric Ochoa-Hein, Arturo Galindo-Fraga, Miriam Bobadilla-del-Valle, José Sifuentes-Osornio, Alfredo Ponce-de-León
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2022-02-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
Subjects:
COVID-19
carbapenemase
E. coli
carbapenem-resistant enterobacteria
NDM-1
ventilator-associated pneumonia
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.02015-21

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