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Volume 23, Number 9—September 2017
Dispatch

Emergence of Plasmid-Mediated Fosfomycin-Resistance Genes among Escherichia coli Isolates, France

Yahia Benzerara, Salah Gallah, Baptiste Hommeril, Nathalie Genel, Dominique Decré, Martin Rottman, and Guillaume ArletComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris Hôpitaux Universitaires Est Parisiens Paris, France (Y. Benzerara, S. Gallah, B. Hommeril, D. Decré, G. Arlet); Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Sorbonne Université, Paris (N. Genel, D. Decré, G. Arlet); Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris Ile de France Ouest, Hôpital Raymond Poincaré, Garches, France (M. Rottman); Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, St-Quentin en Yvelines, France (M. Rottman)

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Table 2

Characteristics of clinical fosfomycin-resistant Escherichia coli isolates considered in our study*

No. isolates
 Year isolated
 Origin
 CTX-M variant
 fosA type
 Sequence type
 Plasmid-carrying fosA type
9 2012 Urine CTX-M-55 A3 ST-559 (ST-10 complex) FII, I1
12 2012 Urine CTX-M-55 A3 ST-559 (ST-10 complex) FII, I1
36 2013 Blood CTX-M-55 A3 ST-1 (new) FII
19 2013 Urine CTX-M-15 A3 ST-2 (new) FII
34 2013 Urine CTX-M-2 A3 ST-2015 Nontypeable
24 2013 Urine CTX-M-15 A3 ST-4508 FII
35 2014 Urine CTX-M-15 A3 ST-69 FII
39 2014 Joint fluid CTX-M-15 A3 ST-69 FII
42 2015 Urine CTX-M-14 A3 ST-457 colE nontypeable
20 2015 Feces CTX-M-15 A5 ST-3 (new) N

*All genetic determinants were different except for isolates 9 and 12 (ST-559) and isolates 35 and 39 (ST-69). The yearly number of extended spectrum β-lactamase–producing E. coli screened was 1,044 in 2012, 1,142 in 2013, 1,251 in 2014, and 1,381 in 2015. ST, sequence type.

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