The significance of screening tests and the incidence of New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase producing Gram-negative bacilli in surgery and transplantation wards of a Warsaw medical center in the period from April 2014 to May 2017

The first New-Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM)-producing bacteria were isolated in 2008 in the world, and in 2011 in Poland. Due to the high clonal diversity (17 types) of their blaNDM gene, encoded on (Tn125-like) mobile genetic elements, these strains usually exhibit resistance to nearly all available antibiotics, which is particularly dangerous for organ transplant recipients.

Source: Transplantation Proceedings - April 11, 2018 Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Ksenia Szymanek-Majchrzak, Andrzej Mlynarczyk, Robert Kuthan, Anna Sawicka-Grzelak, Krzysztof Majchrzak, Dariusz Kawecki, Maciej Kosieradzki, Magdalena Durlik, Dominika Deborska-Materkowska, Leszek Paczek, Grazyna Mlynarczyk Source Type: research