Report on a transborder spread of carbapenemase-producing bacteria by a patient injured during Euromaidan, Ukraine. (November 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hrabák, J.; Študentová, V.; Adámková, V.; Šemberová, L.; Kabelíková, P.; Hedlová, D.; Čurdová, M.; Zemlickova, H.; Papagiannitsis, C.C.
• Is Part Of: New microbes and new infections. Volume 8(2015)
• Page Start: 28
• Page End: 30
• Publication Date: 2015-11
• Subjects: Antibiotic resistance -- catastrophe -- disaster -- Klebsiella pneumoniae -- NDM-1 -- ST11 -- war; Medical microbiology -- Periodicals; Communicable diseases -- Periodicals; Infection -- Periodicals; Microbiology -- Periodicals; Communicable Diseases -- Periodicals; Infection -- Periodicals; 616.9041
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nmni.2015.09.005
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2052-2975

Abstract

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.