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EUROSURVEILLANCE
Volume 26, Issue 26, Pages -Publisher
EUR CENTRE DIS PREVENTION & CONTROL
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.26.2100569
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An 82-year-old Danish man was infected with carbapenemase-producing blaNDM-1-positive Salmonella Kottbus. The blaNDM-1 gene was also found in Escherichia coli and Citrobacter freundii in the same patient, suggesting inter-species plasmid transfer in vivo. Analysis identified similar plasmids originating from East and Southeast Asia, indicating a possible origin for the infection.
We present a case of carbapenemase-producing blaNDM-1-positive Salmonella Kottbus in an 82-year-old Danish man. The blaNDM-1 was also identified in Escherichia coli and Citrobacter freundii in the same patient on the same 43 kb IncN2 plasmid, suggesting in vivo inter-species plasmid transfer. A NCBI BLAST analysis of the plasmid (pAMA003584_NDM-1) identified 12 highly similar plasmids, all originating from east and south-east Asia. This case could be the first confirmed case of blaNDM-1-positive Salmonella not related to travel outside Europe.
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