Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacterales from Patients Arriving from Ukraine in Poland, March 2022-February 2023.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Despite a scarcity of data, before 2022 Ukraine was already considered a high-prevalence country for carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE), and the situation has dramatically worsened during the full-scale war with Russia. The aim of this study was to analyse CPEs isolated in Poland from victims of war in Ukraine.

Methods

The study included 65 CPE isolates from March 2022 till February 2023, recovered in 36 Polish medical centres from 57 patients arriving from Ukraine, differing largely by age and reason for hospitalisation. All isolates were sequenced by MiSeq and ten Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates also by MinION. Taxonomy, clonality and resistomes were analysed for all CPEs, whereas phylogeny, serotypes, virulomes and plasmids were characterised for K

SUBMITTER: Biedrzycka M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11829885 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature