Emerging Infectious Diseases (Aug 2023)

Six Extensively Drug-Resistant Bacteria in an Injured Soldier, Ukraine

  • Patrick T. Mc Gann,
  • Francois Lebreton,
  • Brendan T. Jones,
  • Henry D. Dao,
  • Melissa J. Martin,
  • Messiah J. Nelson,
  • Ting Luo,
  • Andrew C. Wyatt,
  • Jason R. Smedberg,
  • Joanna M. Kettlewell,
  • Brain M. Cohee,
  • Joshua S. Hawley-Molloy,
  • Jason W. Bennett

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2908.230567
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 29, no. 8
pp. 1692 – 1695

Abstract

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Blood and surveillance cultures from an injured service member from Ukraine grew Acinetobacter baumannii, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Enterococcus faecium, and 3 distinct Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains. Isolates were nonsusceptible to most antibiotics and carried an array of antibiotic resistant genes, including carbapenemases (blaIMP-1, blaNDM-1, blaOXA-23, blaOXA-48, blaOXA-72) and 16S methyltransferases (armA and rmtB4).

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