Global threats in local wards: Dissemination of high-risk clones resistant to last-generation cephalosporins and carbapenems in Iraqi hospitals
These findings highlight the dissemination of high-risk clones resistant to expanded-spectrum cephalosporins and carbapenems in geographically diverse Iraqi hospitals, underscoring the urgent necessity to establish comprehensive national antimicrobial resistance surveillance and infection control strategies.
Authors
- Véronique Métayer
- Meriem Souguir (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-1011-6172)
- Antoine Drapeau
- Sana Azaiez
- Wejdène Mansour (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9030-2533)
- Hayder Ali Muhammed
- Jean-Yves Madec
- Ehsan Adnan Hashim
- Marisa Haenni
Institutions
- Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (FR)
- Virologie et Pathologies Humaines (FR)
- University of Kerbala (IQ)
- University of Sousse (TN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- IJID Regions
- Published
- 2026-01-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijregi.2026.100852
- Primary Topic
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire de l’Alimentation, de l’Environnement et du Travail