Community-onset genitourinary tract infection due to CTX-M-15-Producing Escherichia coli among travelers to the Indian subcontinent in New Zealand.
A series of patients are described who presented to a New Zealand hospital with genitourinary tract infection due to CTX-M-15-producing Escherichia coli. All had a history of travel to the Indian subcontinent and lacked traditional risk factors for urinary tract infection due to a multidrug-resistant organism.
Freeman
Joshua T
JT
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Auckland City Hospital, Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand. joshua.freeman@duke.edu
McBride
Stephen J
SJ
Heffernan
Helen
H
Bathgate
Tracy
T
Pope
Chris
C
Ellis-Pegler
Roderick B
RB
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D017714:Community-Acquired Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000187:drug effects / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004927:Escherichia coli Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D005831:Genital Diseases, Female / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D005832:Genital Diseases, Male / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009520:New Zealand / Q000453:epidemiology; D014195:Travel; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D001618:beta-Lactamases / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000235:genetics
D001618:beta-Lactamases