Geographical distribution of Enterobacterales with a carbapenemase IMP-6 phenotype and its association with antimicrobial use: An analysis using comprehensive national surveillance data on antimicrobial resistance

• Aki Hirabayashi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aki Hirabayashi, Koji Yahara

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: akihira@nih.go.jp (AH); k-yahara@nih.go.jp (KY)

  Affiliation Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3115-0645

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• Koji Yahara ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aki Hirabayashi, Koji Yahara

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: akihira@nih.go.jp (AH); k-yahara@nih.go.jp (KY)

  Affiliation Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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• Toshiki Kajihara,

  Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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• Motoyuki Sugai,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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• Keigo Shibayama

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Bacteriology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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