Spread of carbapenemase-producing bacteria has been described all over the world. This phenomenon may be accelerated by many factors, including wars and natural disasters. In this report, we described an NDM-1-producing Klebsiella pneumonia ST11 recovered from a patient injured during the Maidan revolution in Ukraine. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Ukraine and one of several reports describing wound colonization/infection of humans injured during war.

Biomedical Center Faculty of Medicine in Plzeň Plzeň Czech Republic ; Department of Microbiology Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital in Plzeň Charles University Prague Plzeň Czech Republic

Biomedical Center Faculty of Medicine in Plzeň Plzeň Czech Republic ; National Reference Laboratory for Antibiotics National Institute of Public Health Prague Czech Republic

Department of Clinical Microbiology General University Hospital Prague Czech Republic

Department of Clinical Microbiology Military University Hospital Prague Czech Republic

Department of Hospital Epidemiology Prague Czech Republic

Department of Medical Microbiology Motol University Hospital Charles University Prague Czech Republic

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