First report of New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-5 (NDM-5)-producing Escherichia coli isolates from water environment in Cameroon

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Hygiene and Environment Microbiology Section, Centre Pasteur of Cameroon, Yaounde, Cameroon; Department of Microbiology, University of Yaoundé I, Yaounde, Cameroon.
• ² LIM-49, Department of Infectious Diseases, Instituto de Medicina Tropical Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
• ³ Fondation Mérieux, France.
• ⁴ Department of Bacteriology, Centre Pasteur of Cameroon, Yaounde, Cameroon.
• ⁵ Department of Epidemiology, Centre Pasteur of Cameroon, Yaounde, Cameroon.
• ⁶ Department of Hygiene and Environment Microbiology Section, Centre Pasteur of Cameroon, Yaounde, Cameroon.
• ⁷ Department of Microbiology, University of Yaoundé I, Yaounde, Cameroon.
• ⁸ Mott MacDonald - Fleming Fund, Accra, Ghana.
• ⁹ Department of Hygiene and Environment Microbiology Section, Centre Pasteur of Cameroon, Yaounde, Cameroon. Electronic address: [email protected].