International circulation of aztreonam/avibactam-resistant NDM-5-producing Escherichia coli isolates: successful epidemic clones

• Mustafa Sadek,
• Etienne Ruppé,
• Amina Habib,
• Rabaab Zahra,
• Laurent Poirel,
• Patrice Nordmann

Affiliations

Mustafa Sadek

Medical and Molecular Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Medicine, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland; Department of Food Hygiene and Control, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, South Valley University, Qena 83523, Egypt

Etienne Ruppé

Université de Paris, IAME, INSERM, 75018 Paris, France

Amina Habib

Department of Microbiology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Rabaab Zahra

Department of Microbiology, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

Laurent Poirel

Medical and Molecular Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Medicine, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland; INSERM European Unit (IAME), University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland; Swiss National Reference Center for Emerging Antibiotic Resistance (NARA), University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

Patrice Nordmann

Medical and Molecular Microbiology, Faculty of Science and Medicine, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland; INSERM European Unit (IAME), University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland; Swiss National Reference Center for Emerging Antibiotic Resistance (NARA), University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland; Institute for Microbiology, University of Lausanne and University Hospital Centre, Lausanne, Switzerland; Corresponding author. Mailing address: Medical and Molecular Microbiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Science, University of Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 18, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland.