TY - JOUR
T1 - Contaminated dicloxacillin capsules as the source of an NDM-5/OXA-48-producing Enterobacter hormaechei ST79 outbreak, Denmark and Iceland, 2022 and 2023
AU - Agergaard, Charlotte Nielsen
AU - Porsbo, Lone Jannok
AU - Sydenham, Thomas Vognbjerg
AU - Hansen, Sanne Grønvall Kjær
AU - Steinke, Kat
AU - Larsen, Sanne Løkkegaard
AU - Helgason, Kristján Orri
AU - Hansen, Frank
AU - Karstensen, Kasper Thystrup
AU - Henius, Anna E
AU - Holzknecht, Barbara Juliane
AU - Søes, Lillian
AU - Schønning, Kristian
AU - Wang, Mikala
AU - Ank, Nina
AU - Halldórsdóttir, Anna Margrét
AU - Guðlaugsson, Ólafur
AU - Hammerum, Anette M
AU - Kjerulf, Anne
AU - Kristensen, Brian
AU - Hasman, Henrik
AU - Justesen, Ulrik Stenz
PY - 2023/3/2
Y1 - 2023/3/2
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Denmark/epidemiology
KW - Dicloxacillin
KW - Disease Outbreaks
KW - Humans
KW - Iceland/epidemiology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85149305071&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2023.28.9.2300108
DO - 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2023.28.9.2300108
M3 - Letter
C2 - 36862098
SN - 1025-496X
VL - 28
JO - Eurosurveillance
JF - Eurosurveillance
IS - 9
ER -