Bo Fu, Jian Xu, Dandan Yin, Chengtao Sun, Dejun Liu, Weishuai Zhai, Rina Bai, Yue Cao, Qin Zhang, Shizhen Ma, Timothy R Walsh, Fupin Hu, Yang Wang, Congming Wu, Jianzhong Shen
Despite carbapenems not being used in animal, Carbapenem-Resistant-Enterobacterales (CRE), particularly New-Delhi-metallo-β-lactamase-producing-CRE (NDM-CRE), are prevalent in livestock. Concurrently, the incidence of human infections caused by NDM-CRE is rising, particularly in children. Although positive association between livestock production and human NDM-CRE infections at national level was identified, the evidence of direct transmission of NDM originating from livestock to humans remains largely unknown...
April 17, 2024: Emerging Microbes & Infections