Municipal wastewater monitoring revealed the predominance of bla GES genes with diverse variants among carbapenemase-producing organisms: high occurrence and persistence of Aeromonas caviae harboring the new bla GES variant bla GES-48

ABSTRACT We characterized carbapenemase-producing organism (CPO) detected in municipal wastewater to better understand the epidemiology of CPOs in the community. In total, 36 samples were collected at six sampling sites every other month from December 2020 to October 2021. CPOs were not recovered fr...

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Main Authors: Mizuki Tanabe, Yo Sugawara, Tomohiro Denda, Kanae Sakaguchi, Shino Takizawa, Shota Koide, Wataru Hayashi, Liansheng Yu, Shizuo Kayama, Motoyuki Sugai, Yukiko Nagano, Noriyuki Nagano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2023-12-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.02188-23