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Wastewater has become a potential habitat for multi-drug-resistant bacteria. The present study aims to screen for the presence of carbapenem-resistant bacteria in sewage water samples collected from hospital and non-hospital sources. From a total of 19 sewage water samples collected, 100 carbapenem-resistant non-lactose-fermenting Gram-negative bacteria (CR-NF-GNB) were isolated using MacConkey agar cultured with 8 mg l of meropenem. On screening for beta-lactamase resistance genes (bla NDM, bla OXA-48-like, bla IMP, bla VIM and bla KPC), one isolate, Ochrobactrum intermedium , was found to carry the plasmid-borne bla OXA-48-like gene. To the best of our knowledge, we provide the first report of the rare and emerging opportunistic pathogen Ochrobactrum intermedium encoding the OXA-181 gene in its plasmid.

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