Table 1.

Summary of mobile genetic elements reported in carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales in South America.

Country	Isolate	Replicon typing (incompatibility group)	Transposable element	Carbapenemase gene	Reference
Argentina	K. pneumoniae ST258	L/M	Tn4401a	blaKPC-2	8
	C. freundii, E. cloacae K. pneumoniae non-258	HI2, L/M, A/C	NTE: variant Ia and Variant Ib	blaKPC-2	8
	P. rettgeri E. coli	B/O	Tn125 Class 1 integron	blaNDM-1 blaIMP-8	9, 10
	E. cloacae	Non-typeable	Class 1 integron: In883, In885, In346 and In900	blaVIM-2 and blaVIM-11	11
	K. pneumoniae	N/D	IS4321-IS4	blaOXA-48	13
Colombia	K. pneumoniae ST14 ST 387, ST388	L/M	Tn4401b	blaKPC-2	16, 17
	K. pneumoniae ST258	N/D	Tn4401a or Tn4401b	blaKPC-2 blaKPC-3	16
	K. pneumoniae ST147 and ST14	N/D	Tn4401a or Tn4401b	blaKPC-2	18
	K. pneumoniae ST512	N/D	Tn4401b	blaKPC-3	17
	S. marcescens	A/C	Tn4401b	blaKPC-2	18
	E. coli	F	Tn4401b	blaKPC-2	18
	E. coli	A/C	Tn125 and Tn5393	blaNDM-1	19
	K. pneumoniae ST1043	A/C	N/D	blaNDM-1	20
Brazil	K. pneumoniae ST258, ST11 and ST48	FII	Tn4401a	blaKPC-2	21
	K. pneumoniae ST327 and ST437 and E. coli K. pneumoniae	N Q1	Tn4401b NTE	blaKPC-2 blaKPC-2	21, 23
	S. marcescens and C. freundii	L/M	N/D	blaKPC-2	25
	E. coli, E. cloacae, E. aerogenes, C. freundii and P. stuartii	N/D	Tn4401b and Tn4401d	blaKPC-2	25
	K. pneumoniae ST11 and E. coli ST502 K. pneumoniae ST1781	W IncQ	Tn4401c ISKpn23	blaKPC-2 blaBKC-1	21, 26
	Enterobacter hormaechei	FII	ISAba125 and Tn3000	blaNDM-1	27, 29
	P. rettgeri E. coli	N/D IncX3	Tn125 Tn3000	blaNDM-1 blaNDM-1	28, 29
	K. pneumoniae, P. rettgeri S. marcescens	N/D N/D	Class I integrons Class I integrons	blaIMP-1 blaIMP-10	30, 32
	E. hormaechei	N/D	Tn3 truncated-Tn4 truncated	blaOXA-370	33
Chile	K. pneumoniae ST258, ST101, ST25	N/D	Tn4401a	blaKPC-2	36
	K. pneumoniae ST258, ST101, ST25	N/D	NTE: variant 1a	blaKPC-2	36
Ecuador	K. pneumoniae ST147 K. pneumoniae ST248, 25, 42 Raoultella ornithinolytica	A/C FII N/D	N/D Tn4401a Tn1999	blaNDM-1 blaKPC-2 blaOXA-48	34, 35
Uruguay	K. pneumoniae ST 258	N/D	Tn4401a	blaKPC-2	37
Venezuela	K. pneumoniae ST11, ST15, ST833, ST1271, ST1857, ST1859 and ST1860	N/D	Tn4401b	blaKPC-2	38
	K. pneumoniae ST833	N/D	class 1 integron	blaVIM-2-blaKPC-2	39

N/D: not determined.