Genomic characterization of NDM-1 and 5, and OXA-181 carbapenemases in uropathogenic Escherichia coli isolates from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Moataz Abd El Ghany ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Moataz.mohamed@sydney.edu.au (MAEG); Peiying.hong@kaust.edu.sa (PYH)

  Affiliations Westmead Institute for Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0020-261X

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• Hazem Sharaf,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States of America

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• Mohamed H. Al-agamy,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pharmaceutics and Microbiology, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

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• Atef Shibl,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Microbiology and Immunology Department, College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Grant A. Hill-Cawthorne,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3828-5473

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• Pei-Ying Hong

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Moataz.mohamed@sydney.edu.au (MAEG); Peiying.hong@kaust.edu.sa (PYH)

  Affiliation Water Desalination and Reuse Center, Environmental Science and Engineering, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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