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Volume 26, Number 9—September 2020
Dispatch

Carbapenemase-Producing Gram-Negative Bacteria in Andalusia, Spain, 2014–2018

Inmaculada López-HernándezComments to Author , Mercedes Delgado-Valverde, Felipe Fernández-Cuenca, Lorena López-Cerero, Jesús Machuca, and Álvaro Pascual
Author affiliations: Laboratorio PIRASOA, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, Seville, Spain (I. Lopez-Hernandez, M. Delgado-Valverde, F. Fernández-Cuenca, L. López-Cerero, J. Machuca, Á. Pascual); Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla IBIS, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville (I. López-Hernández, M. Delgado-Valverde, F. Fernández-Cuenca, L. López-Cerero, J. Machuca, Á. Pascual); Red Española de Investigación en Patología Infecciosa (REIPI RD16/0016), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain (I. López-Hernández, M. Delgado-Valverde, F. Fernández-Cuenca, L. López-Cerero, J. Machuca, Á. Pascual); Universidad de Sevilla, Seville (Á. Pascual).

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Table 1

Distribution of carbapenemase-producing gram-negative bacteria by year, Andalusia, Spain, 2014–2018

Carbapenemase Bacteria Year
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
VIM Klebsiella pneumoniae 0 0 9 9 15
K. oxytoca 1 13 12 19 32
Escherichia coli 0 2 1 3 2
Enterobacter cloacae 0 4 4 10 15
Citrobacter freundii 0 1 3 2 2
C. amalonaticus 0 0 1 0 0
Pseudomonas aeruginosa 1 0 0 0 29
P. putida 0 0 0 3 3
Acinetobacter spp
 0
 0
 0
 1
 0
IMP K. pneumoniae 0 0 0 0 2
E. coli 0 0 0 0 1
E. cloacae 0 0 0 2 5
C. freundii 0 1 0 0 0
P. aeruginosa
 0
 2
 0
 10
 18
NDM K. pneumoniae 0 0 1 7 37
E. coli 0 0 1 1 3
E. cloacae 0 0 2 0 0
Acinetobacter spp 0 0 0 0 1
A. baumannii
 0
 0
 0
 2
 1
KPC K. pneumoniae 35 71 61 54 38
K. oxytoca 0 0 0 0 2
E. coli 0 0 0 0 3
E. cloacae 0 0 2 3 2
C. freundii
 0
 0
 0
 1
 0
OXA-48 K. pneumoniae 35 26 39 77 44
K. oxytoca 0 0 0 1 3
E. coli 6 3 0 1 3
E. cloacae 1 1 0 0 5
C. freundii 0 1 0 1 3
K. aerogenes
 0
 0
 0
 0
 4
OXA-23
 A. baumannii
 38
 30
 19
 67
 54
OXA-58
 A. baumannii
 15
 25
 46
 38
 36
OXA-24‎/40
 A. baumannii
 1
 33
 12
 7
 1
IMI
 E. cloacae
 0
 0
 0
 0
 1
IMP, imipenemase; KPC, Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase; MBL, metallo-β-lactamases; NDM, New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase; OXA, oxacillinases; VIM, Verona integron-encoded metallo-β-lactamase.

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