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Volume 27, Number 10—October 2021

Research

New Delhi Metallo-β-Lactamase–Producing Enterobacterales Bacteria, Switzerland, 2019–2020

Jacqueline Findlay, Laurent PoirelComments to Author , Julie Kessler, Andreas Kronenberg, and Patrice Nordmann
Author affiliations: University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland (J. Findlay, L. Poirel, J. Kessler, P. Nordmann); University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland (A. Kronenberg); Institute for Microbiology, University of Lausanne and University Hospital Centre, Lausanne, Switzerland (P. Nordmann); Associate Editor, Emerging Infectious Diseases (P. Nordmann)

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Table 1

Sources of 141 blaNDM-positive isolates identified in Enterobacterales bacteria, Switzerland, 2019–2020

Species No. from patient source
 Total
Urine Blood culture Tissue and fluid Respiratory Fecal and rectal swab Nonrectal screening swab Unknown
Klebsiella pneumoniae 12 1 7 2 31 4 2 59
Escherichia coli 13 2 1 0 31 4 1 52
Enterobacter cloacae complex 6 0 5 1 6 0 1 19
K. aerogenes 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 3
Citrobacter freundii 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 3
K. quasipneumoniae 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2
K. variicola 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2
K. oxytoca
 1
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0
 0
 1
Total 34 3 14 4 73 9 4 141

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