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On September 8, 2014, this report was posted as an MMWR Early Release on the MMWR website (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr).

Jenine K. Harris, PhD1, Raed Mansour, MS2, Bechara Choucair, MD2, Joe Olson3, Cory Nissen, MS3, Jay Bhatt, DO2 (Author affiliations at end of text).

Yoran Grant Greene, PhD1,2, Thomas Padovani3, Jo Ann Rudroff4, Rebecca Hall, MPH5, Connie Austin, DVM, PhD2, Michael Vernon, DrPH2 (Author affiliations at end of text).

Infections with carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE)* are increasing among patients in medical facilities (1). CRE that produce Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC) have been responsible for much of the increase in the United States. However, New Delhi metallo-?-lactamase (NDM)–producing CRE have the potential to add to this burden.

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