First report of an Escherichia coli from Lebanon carrying an OXA-181 carbapenemase resistance determinant

Tokajian, Sima; Bitar, Ibrahim; Dagher, Christel; Salloum, Tamara; Araj, George

First report of an Escherichia coli from Lebanon carrying an OXA-181 carbapenemase resistance determinant

Tokajian, Sima; Bitar, Ibrahim; Dagher, Christel; Salloum, Tamara; Araj, George

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10725/8106

URL: https://www.jgaronline.com/article/S2213-7165(18)30004-3/abstract

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgar.2018.01.002

Date: 2018-06-27

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Abstract:

The class D carbapenemase OXA-48 was first detected in 2001 from a carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate in Istanbul, Turkey [1]. The variant OXA-181, which differs from OXA-48 by four amino acids, was isolated later in India in 2007 from Enterobacter cloacae and K. pneumoniae. Since then, OXA-181 has been reported in Bangladesh, India, South Africa, Canada, France and New Zealand [2,3]. Here we report the first case of OXA-181-producing Escherichia coli identified in Lebanon.

Citation:

Bitar, I., Dagher, C., Salloum, T., Araj, G., & Tokajian, S. (2018). First report of an Escherichia coli from Lebanon carrying an OXA-181 carbapenemase resistance determinant. Journal of global antimicrobial resistance, 12, 113-114.