TY - JOUR T1 - Novel <em>bla</em><sub>KPC</sub>-carrying species identified in the hospital environment JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/069856 SP - 069856 AU - Hang T.T. Phan AU - Zoie Aiken AU - Oluwafemi Akinremi AU - Julie Cawthorne AU - Andrew Dodgson AU - Angela Downes AU - Matthew Ellington AU - Ryan George AU - Amy Mathers AU - Nicole Stoesser AU - Stephanie Thomas AU - on behalf of the TRACE Investigators’ Group Y1 - 2016/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/08/16/069856.abstract N2 - blaKPC, encoding one of five dominant global carbapenemase families, is increasingly identified in environmental species difficult to characterize using routine diagnostic methods, with epidemiological and clinical implications. During environmental hospital infection prevention and control investigations (Manchester, UK) we used whole genome sequencing to confirm species identification for isolates infrequently associated with blaKPC and/or difficult to classify by MALDI-ToF. Four previously undescribed blaKPC-carrying species were identified from the hospital environment, including a putative, novel Enterobacter species. ER -