TABLE 1.
Species composition and carbapenemase-encoding genes of Enterobacteriaceae isolates
| Carbapenemase-encoding gene (n) | Sample typea (n) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E. coli (n = 10) | Klebsiella spp. (n = 22) | E. cloacae complex (n = 10) | Citrobacter spp. (n = 2) | R. ornithinolytica (n = 1) | |
| blaGES-5 (20) | TH (6) | JW (1), TW (1), TH (10) | TH (1) | JW (1) | |
| blaGES-6 (7) | TH (1) | TW (1), TH (4) | TH (1) | ||
| blaGES-24 (1) | JW (1) | ||||
| blaNDM-5 (3) | TH (3) | ||||
| blaIMP-8 (2) | TH (2) | ||||
| blaIMP-19 (1) | JW (1) | ||||
| blaKPC-2 (2) | TH (1) | TH (1) | |||
| blaVIM-1 (1) | TH (1) | ||||
| blaGES-5 + blaIMP-8 (1) | TH (1) | ||||
| NDb (7) | TW (1) | JW (6) | |||
a
JW, Japanese municipal WWTP; TW, Taiwanese municipal WWTP; TH, Taiwanese hospital wastewater.
b
ND, no carbapenemase-encoding genes were detected.