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. 2015 Sep 21:8:28-30.
doi: 10.1016/j.nmni.2015.09.005. eCollection 2015 Nov.

Report on a transborder spread of carbapenemase-producing bacteria by a patient injured during Euromaidan, Ukraine

J Hrabák  1 , V Študentová  1 , V Adámková  2 , L Šemberová  2 , P Kabelíková  3 , D Hedlová  4 , M Čurdová  5 , H Zemlickova  6 , C C Papagiannitsis  1
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Report on a transborder spread of carbapenemase-producing bacteria by a patient injured during Euromaidan, Ukraine

J Hrabák et al. New Microbes New Infect. .

Abstract

Spread of carbapenemase-producing bacteria has been described all over the world. This phenomenon may be accelerated by many factors, including wars and natural disasters. In this report, we described an NDM-1-producing Klebsiella pneumonia ST11 recovered from a patient injured during the Maidan revolution in Ukraine. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Ukraine and one of several reports describing wound colonization/infection of humans injured during war.

Keywords: Antibiotic resistance; Klebsiella pneumoniae; NDM-1; ST11; catastrophe; disaster; war.

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