Research Article: Country-wide expansion of a VIM-1 carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella oxytoca ST145 lineage in Poland, 2009–2019
Abstract:
To elucidate the role of the Klebsiella oxytoca species complex (KoSC) in epidemiology of VIM-type MBL-producing Enterobacterales in Poland.
Introduction:
Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE) are considered to be largely responsible for the current antimicrobial resistance (AMR) crisis around the world [1]. One of their critically important groups is metallo-?-lactamase (MBL) producers, including those with VIM-type enzymes. Initially, these were described in Pseudomonas spp. in the mid-1990s, followed soon by Enterobacterales [2, 3]. In general, the VIM-type carbapenemases are encoded by gene cassettes usually of class 1 integrons that in enterobacteria…
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