Molecular Surveillance of Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria among Refugees from Afghanistan in 2 US Military Hospitals during Operation Allies Refuge, 2021
Cole Anderson
, Francois Lebreton, Emma Mills, Brendan Jones, Melissa Martin, Hunter Smith, Roseanne Ressner, Sara Robinson, Wesley Campbell, Jason Smedberg, Michael Backlund, Diane Homeyer, Joshua Hawley-Molloy, Natalie Khan, Henry Dao, Patrick McGann, and Jason Bennett
Author affiliation: Landstuhl Regional Medical Center Landstuhl, Germany (C. Anderson, J. Smedberg, J. Hawley-Molloy, N. Khan, Henry Dao); Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA (F. Lebreton, E. Mills, B. Jones, M. Martin, P. McGann, J. Bennett); Global Emerging Infections Surveillance Branch, Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division, Silver Spring (H. Smith); Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, USA (R. Ressner, S. Robinson, W. Campbell, M. Backlund); Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, USA (D. Homeyer)
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Figure 2. Phylogenetic analysis of highly related isolates from molecular surveillance of multidrug-resistant bacteria among refugees from Afghanistan in 2 US military hospitals during OAR, 2021. A) Escherichia coli ST44, ST69, and ST648 isolates. B) Klebsiella pneumoniae ST15 isolates; OAR isolates were closely related to isolates collected in 2018. C) Acinetobacter baumannii ST2 isolates; OAR isolates were closely related to isolates collected during 2019–2020. D) Enterococcus faecium ST80 isolates. Numbers inside circles indicate isolate identification numbers. Numbers along lines connecting circles indicate the number of allelic differences between isolates. Gray shading indicates clustered isolates. Bagram, Bagram Air Force Base, Bagram, Afghanistan; LRMC, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Landstuhl, Germany; OAR, Operation Allies Refuge; ST, sequence type; WRNMMC, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
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