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Contaminated dicloxacillin capsules as the source of an NDM-5/OXA-48-producing Enterobacter hormaechei ST79 outbreak, Denmark and Iceland, 2022 and 2023

Contaminated dicloxacillin capsules as the source of an NDM-5/OXA-48-producing Enterobacter hormaechei ST79 outbreak, Denmark and Iceland, 2022 and 2023


Title: Contaminated dicloxacillin capsules as the source of an NDM-5/OXA-48-producing Enterobacter hormaechei ST79 outbreak, Denmark and Iceland, 2022 and 2023
Author: Agergaard, Charlotte Nielsen
Porsbo, Lone Jannok
Sydenham, Thomas Vognbjerg
Hansen, Sanne Grønvall Kjær
Steinke, Kat
Larsen, Sanne Løkkegaard
Helgason, Kristján Orri
Hansen, Frank
Karstensen, Kasper Thystrup
Henius, Anna E
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Date: 2023-03-02
Language: English
Scope: 239386
Department: Other departments
Series: Eurosurveillance; 28(9)
ISSN: 1560-7917
DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2023.28.9.2300108
Subject: Sýklafræði; Smitsjúkdómalæknisfræði; Humans; Iceland/epidemiology; Dicloxacillin; Disease Outbreaks; Denmark/epidemiology; Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health; Epidemiology; Virology
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/4162

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Agergaard , C N , Porsbo , L J , Sydenham , T V , Hansen , S G K , Steinke , K , Larsen , S L , Helgason , K O , Hansen , F , Karstensen , K T , Henius , A E , Holzknecht , B J , Søes , L , Schønning , K , Wang , M , Ank , N , Halldórsdóttir , A M , Guðlaugsson , Ó , Hammerum , A M , Kjerulf , A , Kristensen , B , Hasman , H & Justesen , U S 2023 , ' Contaminated dicloxacillin capsules as the source of an NDM-5/OXA-48-producing Enterobacter hormaechei ST79 outbreak, Denmark and Iceland, 2022 and 2023 ' , Eurosurveillance , vol. 28 , no. 9 . https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2023.28.9.2300108

Abstract:

From October 2022 through January 2023, nine patients with NDM-5/OXA-48-carbapenemase-producing Enterobacter hormaechei ST79 were detected in Denmark and subsequently one patient in Iceland. There were no nosocomial links between patients, but they had all been treated with dicloxacillin capsules. An NDM-5/OXA-48-carbapenemase-producing E. hormaechei ST79, identical to patient isolates, was cultured from the surface of dicloxacillin capsules in Denmark, strongly implicating them as the source of the outbreak. Special attention is required to detect the outbreak strain in the microbiology laboratory.

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