ABSTRACT
Here, we report the first autochthonous cases of infections caused by
bla
NDM-5
New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-producing
Escherichia coli
strains recovered from urine and blood specimens of three patients from Algeria between January 2012 and February 2013. The three isolates belong to sequence type 2659 and they coexpress
bla
CTX-M-15
with the
bla
TEM-1
and
bla
aadA2
genes.