Hospital outbreak of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriales associated with an OXA-48 plasmid carried mostly by Escherichia coli ST399
A. Ledda, M. Cummins, L. P. Shaw, E. Jauneikaite, K. Cole, F. Lasalle, D. Barry, C. Rosmarin, S. Anaraki, D. Wareham, N. Stoesser, J. Paul, R. Manuel, B. Cherian, X. Didelot
The paper investigates a hospital outbreak of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriales, identifying an OXA-48 plasmid in E. coli ST399 as the main driver, with evidence of plasmid conjugation and clonal expansion.
bioRxiv · Jun 15, 2020Evolutionary Biology