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Panpan Zi1, Ming Fang2, Hongfu Yang1
1Department of Critical Care Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China.
Purpose:
The continuous rise in carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae infections is a major public health concern. However, there is limited information available on New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1 (NDM-1) producing Citrobacter koseri. In this study, we isolated a blaNDM-1-carrying C. koseri from a stool sample of an inpatient. Our aim was to investigate the phenotypic and genomic features of this clinically derived carbapenem-resistant C. koseri isolate and to characterize the transmission pattern of the IncFII/IncN plasmid that carries the blaNDM-1 gene.
Methods And Results:
S1-PFGE, Southern blot and conjugation assay confirmed the presence of blaNDM-1 gene in a conjugative plasmid. C. koseri L2395 and transconjugant L2395-EC600 strains showed similar resistance spectrum. Whole-genome analysis revealed that pL2395_NDM is an IncFII/IncN plasmid with a length of 67,839 bp. Moreover, blaNDM-1 gene was found encoded in the ISKpn19-blaNDM-1-ble-tnpF-dsbD-cutA-ISKpn19 cassette array. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that strain L2395 was close to an IMP-4-bearing C. koseri from Australia.
Conclusion:
Ongoing surveillance will be essential to control and prevent the spread of carbapenem-resistant Citrobacter spp. in the future.
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