Infection due to travel-related carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae, a largely underestimated phenomenon in Belgium.
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...OXA-181 is present in much of Asia and has been sporadically detected in the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Norway, France, South Africa, New Zealand, Oman, and Nigeria.(22,67,74,75) As the description above suggests, CRE are identified wherever antimicrobial resistance data exist....
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...Importation of CRE may occur due to returned travelers, medical repatriation of patients, and medical tourism.(22) The spread of KPC- and NDM-producing Enterobacteriaceae during the 2000s due to cross-border transfer of patients between healthcare facilities highlights the urgent need for both formalized CRE screening procedures by international and national health and travel insurance providers and global antimicrobial resistance surveillance systems....
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...Ogbolu DO, Webber MA. High-level and novel mechanisms of carbapenem- resistance in Gram-negative bacteria from tertiary hospitals in Nigeria....
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...Elsewhere, OXA-48 has led to healthcare-associated outbreaks.16,39,60 OXA-48 is endemic in Malta,11 and it is the most frequently detected carbapenemase in The Netherlands, France, and Belgium.11,14,16,22 Outside Europe, it is spreading across all other continents (Figure 2).11,16–19,32,37,40,46,55,61–73 OXA-181 is a variant of OXA-48, which shares similar carbapenemase activity, and it has been identified in isolates from India or of Indian origin, often coexisting with NDM in single strains of K. pneumoniae....
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...OXA-48 is endemic in Malta,(11) and it is the most frequently detected carbapenemase in The Netherlands, France, and Belgium.(11,14,16,22) Outside Europe, it is spreading across all other continents (Figure 2)....
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...Although no patient history regarding travel or hospitalisation in foreign country was available in this study, data from the national surveillance programme and from the previous prevalence study in 2012 support that the proportion of travelimported CPE cases should be limited [17]....
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...In Belgium, the National Reference Centre for Monitoring Antimicrobial Resistance in Gram-Negative Bacteria was set up in 2012, inviting all laboratories to submit all suspected clinical or screening isolates for analysis.(135) In Sweden, clinical laboratories are encouraged to send all isolates to the Public Health AgencyofSweden for characterization,(139) and theFinnish surveillancenetworkcollects surveillance data from all major clinical laboratories....
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...Importation of MDR-GNBs may occur owing to returned travelers, medical repatriation of patients, and medical tourism.(135) Surveillancedata collection at the local, national, and international levels is necessary to detect temporal and spatial trends in antimicrobial resistance....
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Patients who received medical care abroad (whatever the country) should be screened for CPE at admission.