Household cockroaches carry CTX-M-15-, OXA-48- and NDM-1-producing enterobacteria, and share beta-lactam resistance determinants with humans

BACKGROUND: This study was designed to investigate whether household cockroaches harbor cephalosporin-resistant enterobacteria that share resistance determinants with human inhabitants. From February through July 2016, whole cockroach homogenates and human fecal samples from 100 households were cult...

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Published in:BMC Microbiol
Main Authors: Obeng-Nkrumah, Noah, Labi, Appiah-Korang, Blankson, Harriet, Awuah-Mensah, Georgina, Oduro-Mensah, Daniel, Anum, Judelove, Teye, James, Kwashie, Solomon Dzidzornu, Bako, Evariste, Ayeh-Kumi, Patrick Ferdinand, Asmah, Richard
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Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2019
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6894353/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31801455
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12866-019-1629-x
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