Table 1.

Diverse NDM-harbouring plasmids and their origin

Country	Organism	Plasmid	NDM variant	Reference
Japan	Escherichia coli	IncA/C	NDM-1	Sekizuka et al. [3]
France	Enterobacteriaceae	IncL/M, IncFII, IncA/C	NDM-1	Potron et al. [4]
France	E. coli	IncFII	NDM-1	Bonnin et al. [5]
Germany	E. coli	IncX3	NDM-7	Gottig et al. [6]
India	Enterobacteriaceae	IncF, IncA/C	NDM-1, -5, -6, -7	Rahman et al. [7]
India	Klebsiella pneumoniae	IncX3	NDM-5	Krishnaraju et al. [8]
China	E. coli	IncX3	NDM-5	Yang et al. [9]
China	K. pneumoniae/Raoultella planticola	IncX3	NDM-1	Qu et al. [10]
Canada	Enterobacteriaceae	IncX3	NDM-7	Chen et al. [11]

NDM, New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase.