Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae circulating in the Reunion Island, a French territory in the Southwest Indian Ocean
Résumé
Background: The spread of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) in the Southwest Indian Ocean area (SIOA) is poorly documented. Reunion Island is a French overseas territory located close to Madagascar and connected with Southern Africa, Indian sub-continent and Europe, with several weekly flights. Here we report the results of the CPE surveillance program in Reunion Island over a six-year period. Methods: All CPE were collected between January 2011 and December 2016. Demographics and clinical data of the carrier patients were collected. We determined their susceptibility to antimicrobials, identified the carbapenemases and ESBL by PCR and sequencing, and explored their genetic relationship using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and multi-locus sequence typing. Results: A total of 61 CPEs isolated from 53 patients were retrieved in 6 public or private laboratories of the island. We found that 69.8% of CPE patients were linked to a foreign country of SIOA and that almost half of CPE cases (47.2%) reached the island through a medical evacuation. The annual number of CPE cases strongly increased over the studied period (one case in 2011 vs. 21 cases in 2016). A proportion of 17.5% of CPE isolates were non-susceptible to colistin. bla NDM was the most frequent carbapenemase (79.4%), followed by bla IMI (11.1%), and bla IMP-10 (4.8%). Autochtonous CPE cases (30.2%) harboured CPE isolates belonging to a polyclonal population.
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