Uncovering the spread of drug-resistant bacteria through next-generation sequencing based surveillance: transmission of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales by a contaminated duodenoscope.

"all sequence data (including two c freundii isolates submitted for a separate project (prjeb44899)) have been submitted to european nucleotide archive (ena) under the study accession number prjeb67940 and the dataset is available in additional file 1 ."

"Declarations Ethics approvalNot applicable. The anonymized data used for the analyses were collected by those authors functioning as treating physicians, from the department’s own database. The collected data did not include any (in)directly identifiable personal details and the analyzing authors had no access to those, complying with the local data protection committee regarding clinical data processing. Following Dutch legislation and guidelines of the local ethics commission approval was therefore not required. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding Cansu Cimen was supported by grants from the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony (MWK) as part of the Niedersachsen ‘Vorab’ Program (Grant Agreement No. ZN3831) to the Cross Border Institute (CBI)."