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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Eurosurveillance, 8(29), 2024

DOI: 10.2807/1560-7917.es.2024.29.8.2400073

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Clinical isolates of ST131 blaOXA-244-positive Escherichia coli, Italy, December 2022 to July 2023

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Abstract

The dissemination of carbapenemase-producing Escherichia coli, although still at low level, should be continuously monitored. OXA-244 is emerging in Europe, mainly in E. coli. In Italy, this carbapenemase was reported from an environmental river sample in 2019. We report clinical isolates of OXA-244-producing ST131 E. coli in four patients admitted to an acute care hospital in Pavia, Italy. The association of this difficult-to-detect determinant with a globally circulating high-risk clone, ST131 E. coli, is of clinical relevance.