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Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 26, 30 June 2011
Rapid communications
Rapid emergence of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae isolates in Belgium
T- D Huang (
)<SUP>1</SUP>, P Bogaerts<SUP>1</SUP>, C Berhin<SUP>1</SUP>, B Jans<SUP>2</SUP>, A Deplano<SUP>3</SUP>, O Denis<SUP>3</SUP>, Y Glupczynski<SUP>1</SUP>
Citation style for this article: Huang TD, Bogaerts P, Berhin C, Jans B, Deplano A, Denis O, Glupczynski Y. Rapid emergence of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae isolates in Belgium. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(26)
ii=19900. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19900
Date of submission: 17 June 2011 <HR>We report on the evolution and epidemiology of carbapenem non-susceptible Enterobacteriaceae (CNSE) including carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) in Belgium between January 2007 and April 2011. Significantly higher numbers of CNSE and of CPE were detected in 2010 and 2011 compared to the years 2007 to 2009. The majority of patients carrying CPE did not have history of travel abroad. The rapid emergence of autochthonous CPE strains in Belgium since 2010 warrants strengthened epidemiological surveillance at national level.
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 26, 30 June 2011
Rapid communications
Rapid emergence of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae isolates in Belgium
T- D Huang (
- Laboratory of Microbiology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Mont-Godinne (UCL), Yvoir, Belgium
- Epidemiology Unit, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium
- Laboratory of Microbiology, H?pital Erasme, Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Citation style for this article: Huang TD, Bogaerts P, Berhin C, Jans B, Deplano A, Denis O, Glupczynski Y. Rapid emergence of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae isolates in Belgium. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(26)
ii=19900. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19900 Date of submission: 17 June 2011 <HR>We report on the evolution and epidemiology of carbapenem non-susceptible Enterobacteriaceae (CNSE) including carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) in Belgium between January 2007 and April 2011. Significantly higher numbers of CNSE and of CPE were detected in 2010 and 2011 compared to the years 2007 to 2009. The majority of patients carrying CPE did not have history of travel abroad. The rapid emergence of autochthonous CPE strains in Belgium since 2010 warrants strengthened epidemiological surveillance at national level.