Emergence of Escherichia coli producing OXA-48-like carbapenemase in a patient with percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage

Infect Prev Pract. 2019 Jul 3;1(1):100008. doi: 10.1016/j.infpip.2019.100008. eCollection 2019 Mar.

Authors

Satoshi Nishida¹, Miwa Asahara², Kentaro Nemoto³, Shinobu Ishigaki², Taiji Furukawa², Keiji Sano³, Yasuo Ono¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan.
² Department of Laboratory Medicine, Teikyo University Hospital, Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan.
³ Department of Surgery, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan.

No abstract available

Keywords: Carbapenemase; Enterobacteriaceae; Escherichia coli; Multidrug resistance; OXA-48; Surgery.

Publication types

Editorial