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Published in final edited form as: Lancet Infect Dis. 2021 Nov 9;22(3):401–412. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00399-6

Table 2.

Bacterial Characteristics

China (n=485) South America (n=170) U.S. (n=284) Otherg (n=52) all infected patients (n=502) All (n=991) ph
Carbapenemases a
Carbapenemase(s) present 473 (98) 127 (75) 249 (88) 39 (75) 443 (88) 888 (90) <0·0001
bla KPC-2 454 (94) 66 (39) 124 (44) 2 (4) 324 (65) 646 (65) <0·0001
bla KPC-3 0 51 (30) 105 (37) 0 78 (16) 156 (16) <0·0001
other blaKPCb 2 (0) 0 3 (1) 0 3 (1) 5 (1) 0·285
bla NDM-1 8 (2) 14 (8) 6 (2) 3 (6) 16 (3) 31 (3) <0·0001
other blaNDMc 4 (1) 0 0 9 (17) 7 (1) 13 (1) 0·153
bla OXA-48 0 0 7 (2) 25 (48) 10 (2) 32 (3) 0·0003
other blaOXA-48-liked 3 (1) 1 (1) 7 (2) 5 (10) 8 (2) 16 (2) 0·053
othere 4 (1) 3 (2) 0 1 (2) 4 (1) 8 (1) 0·102
No carbapenemase detected 12 (2) 43 (25) 35 (12) 13 (25) 59 (12) 103 (10)
Extended spectrum β-lactamase
bla CTX-M 395 (81) 95 (56) 77 (27) 31 (60) 302 (60) 598 (60) <0·0001
bla CTX-M-15 81 (17) 77 (45) 75 (26) 26 (50) 121 (24) 259 (26) <0·0001
bla CTX-M-65 300 (62) 0 1 (0) 0 151 (30) 301 (30) <0·0001
bla SHV f 218 (45) 18 (11) 93 (33) 4 (8) 155 (31) 333 (34) <0·0001
bla TEM f 0 3 (2) 0 0 1 (0) 3 (0) 0·001
bla AmpC 51 (11) 2 (1) 5 (2) 6 (12) 31 (6) 64 (6) <0·0001
Multi-locus sequence type <0·0001
ST11 379 (78) 76 (45) 16 (6) 2 (4) 250 (50) 473 (48)
ST258 0 13 (8) 163 (57) 1 (2) 78 (16) 177 (18)
ST15 78 (16) 1 (1) 15 (5) 2 (4) 44 (9) 96 (10)
ST147 3 (1) 2 (1) 5 (2) 15 (29) 14 (3) 25 (3)
other 25 (5) 78 (46) 85 (30) 32 (62) 116 (23) 220 (22)
K locus <0·0001
KL64 298 (61) 3 (2) 6 (2) 1 (2) 165 (33) 308 (31)
KL107 0 12 (7) 96 (34) 0 46 (9) 108 (11)
KL19 69 (14) 0 2 (1) 0 31 (6) 71 (7)
KL106 0 1 (1) 57 (20) 2 (4) 29 (6) 60 (6)
KL47 58 (12) 0 1 (0) 0 29 (6) 59 (6)
KL105 2 (0) 45 (26) 3 (1) 1 (2) 34 (7) 51 (5)
other 58 (12) 109 (64) 119 (42) 48 (92) 168 (33) 334 (34)
O locus <0·0001
O2v1 307 (63) 5 (3) 14 (5) 7 (13) 175 (35) 333 (34)
O2v2 6 (1) 66 (39) 171 (60) 6 (12) 119 (24) 249 (25)
other 172 (35) 99 (58) 99 (35) 39 (75) 208 (41) 409 (41)
porin genes
OmpK35 mutation 441 (91) 72 (42) 200 (70) 13 (25) 358 (71) 726 (73) <0·0001
OmpK36 mutation 433 (89) 80 (47) 89 (31) 19 (37) 316 (63) 621 (63) <0·0001
Putative virulence genes
aerobactin 299 (62) 0 4 (1) 8 (15) 156 (31) 311 (31) <0·0001
colibactin 3 (1) 13 (8) 61 (21) 3 (6) 33 (7) 80 (8) <0·0001
rmpA2 284 (59) 0 1 (0) 6 (12) 148 (29%) 291 (29) <0·0001
rmpADC 185 (38) 0 1 (0) 2 (4) 97 (19) 188 (19) <0·0001
yersiniabactin 460 (95) 104 (61) 119 (42) 23 (44) 357 (71) 706 (71) <0·0001

All data is shown as n (%), unless otherwise noted. WT wild-type; MT mutant.

a

Totals exceed 100%, as 17 isolates carried more than one carbapenemase gene.

b

Other blaKPC included blaKPC-12 (2), blaKPC-28 (1), blaKPC-31 (1), blaKPC-34 (1).

c

Other blaNDM included blaNDM-4 (2), blaNDM-5 (10), blaNDM-7 (1).

d

Other blaoxa-48-like included blaoxa-163 (1), blaoxa-181 (5), blaoxa-232 (10).

e

Other carbapenemases included blaVIM-2 (1), blaVIM-24 (2), blaIMP-1 (1), blaIMP-4 (4).

f

Limited to blaSHV and blaTEM genes that are considered extended spectrum β-lactamase genes, including blaSHV-12 (279), blaSHV-2A (32), blaSHV-110 (8), blaSHV-27 (3), blaSHV-2 (3), blaSHV-30 (2), blaSHV-32 (2), blaSHV-5 (2), blaSHV-100 (1), blaSHV-42 (1), and blaTEM-26 (3).

g

Australia, Lebanon, and Singapore.

h

Comparisons between China, South America, and the US.