Metallo-β-lactamase-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the Netherlands: the nationwide emergence of a single sequence type
Recently, the first outbreak of clonally related VIM-2 metallo-β-lactamase (MBL)-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a Dutch tertiary-care centre was described. Subsequently, a nationwide surveillance study was performed in 2010–2011, which identified the presence of VIM-2 MBL-producing P. aeruginos...
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Published in | Clinical microbiology and infection Vol. 18; no. 9; pp. E369 - E372 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Oxford, UK
Elsevier Ltd
01.09.2012
Blackwell Publishing Ltd |
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Summary: | Recently, the first outbreak of clonally related VIM-2 metallo-β-lactamase (MBL)-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a Dutch tertiary-care centre was described. Subsequently, a nationwide surveillance study was performed in 2010–2011, which identified the presence of VIM-2 MBL-producing P. aeruginosa in 11 different hospitals. Genotyping by multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis (MLVA) showed that the majority of the 82 MBL-producing isolates found belonged to a single MLVA type (n = 70, 85%), identified as STI11 by multilocus sequence typing (MLST). As MBL-producing isolates cause serious infections that are difficult to treat, the presence of clonally related isolates in various hospitals throughout the Netherlands is of nationwide concern. |
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Bibliography: | for the members of the MBL‐PA surveillance study group. See Appendix ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 ObjectType-Article-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 |
ISSN: | 1198-743X 1469-0691 |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2012.03969.x |