VIM-1 carbapenemase-producing Escherichia coli isolated from retail seafood, Germany 2016.

ABSTRACT: Carbapenems belong to the group of last resort antibiotics in human medicine. Therefore, the emergence of growing numbers of carbapenemase-producing bacteria in food-producing animals or the environment is worrying and an important concern for the public health sector. In the present study, a set of 45 Enterobacteriaceae isolated from German retail seafood (clams and shrimps), sampled in 2016, were investigated by real-time PCR for the presence of carbapenemase-producing bacteria. One Escherichia coli (ST10), isolated from a Venus clam (Ruditapes philippinarum) harvested in the Mediterranean Sea (Italy), contained the carbapenemase gene bla_VIM-1 as part of the variable region of a class I integron. Whole-genome sequencing indicated that the integron was embe

SUBMITTER: Roschanski N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5718389 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature