The aim of this study was to characterize the first cases and outbreaks of OXA-48-like-producing Enterobacteriaceae recovered from hospital settings in the Czech Republic. From 2013 to 2015, 22 Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates, 3 Escherichia coli isolates, and 1 Enterobacter cloacae isolate producing OXA-48-like carbapenemases were isolated from 20 patients. Four of the patients were colonized or infected by two or three different OXA-48-like producers. The K. pneumoniae isolates were classified into nine sequence types (STs), with ST101 being predominant (n = 8). The E. coli isolates were of different STs, while the E. cloacae isolate belonged to ST109. Twenty-four isolates carried blaOXA-48, while two isolates carried blaOXA-181 or blaOXA-232 Almost all isolates (n = 22) carried blaOXA-48-positive plasmids of a similar size (∼60 kb), except the two isolates producing OXA-181 or OXA-232. In an ST45 K. pneumoniae isolate and an ST38 E. coli isolate, S1 nuclease profiling plus hybridization indicated a chromosomal location of blaOXA-48 Sequencing showed that the majority of blaOXA-48-carrying plasmids exhibited high degrees of identity with the pOXA-48-like plasmid pE71T. Additionally, two novel pE71T derivatives, pOXA-48_30715 and pOXA-48_30891, were observed. The blaOXA-181-carrying plasmid was identical to the IncX3 plasmid pOXA181_EC14828, while the blaOXA-232-carrying plasmid was a ColE2-type plasmid, being a novel derivative of pOXA-232. Finally, sequencing data showed that the ST45 K. pneumoniae and ST38 E. coli isolates harbored the IS1R-based composite transposon Tn6237 containing blaOXA-48 integrated into their chromosomes. These findings underlined that the horizontal transfer of pOXA-48-like plasmids has played a major role in the dissemination of blaOXA-48 in the Czech Republic. In combination with the difficulties with their detection, OXA-48 producers constitute an important public threat.

Biomedical Center Faculty of Medicine Charles University Pilsen Czech Republic

Department of Clinical Microbiology Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Kralove Charles University Prague Hradec Kralove Czech Republic

Department of Microbiology Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Pilsen Charles University Pilsen Czech Republic

Department of Neurosurgery Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Pilsen Charles University Pilsen Czech Republic

National Reference Laboratory for Antibiotics National Institute of Public Health Prague Czech Republic

Veterinary Research Institute Brno Czech Republic

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