Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control (Feb 2020)

Flies from a tertiary hospital in Rwanda carry multidrug-resistant Gram-negative pathogens including extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing E. coli sequence type 131

  • Stefan E. Heiden,
  • Mathis S. E. Kurz,
  • Jürgen Bohnert,
  • Claude Bayingana,
  • Jules M. Ndoli,
  • Augustin Sendegeya,
  • Jean Bosco Gahutu,
  • Elias Eger,
  • Frank P. Mockenhaupt,
  • Katharina Schaufler

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-020-0696-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 4

Abstract

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Abstract Multidrug-resistant gram-negative (MRGN) bacteria are a serious threat to global health. We used genomics to study MRGN obtained from houseflies in a tertiary Rwandan hospital. Our analysis revealed a high abundance of different MRGN including E. coli pathogenic lineage ST131 suggesting the important role of flies in disseminating highly virulent pathogens in clinical settings and beyond.

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