Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
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…·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.
DOI 10.1099/mgen.0.000675