“…This is an important finding. However, even more importantly, our BLASTn analysis showed that IncX3 plasmids harboring various bla NDM genes, including bla NDM–1 (Lü et al, 2018; Zhu et al, 2018), bla NDM–4 (Espedido et al, 2015; Sugawara et al, 2017), bla NDM–5 (Krishnaraju et al, 2015; Zhu et al, 2016; Li et al, 2018; Xie et al, 2018) , bla NDM–6, bla NDM–7 (Pal et al, 2017; Sugawara et al, 2017), bla NDM–13 (Lv et al, 2016), bla NDM–17 (Liu et al, 2017), bla NDM–19 (Liu et al, 2019), bla NDM–20 (Liu Z. et al, 2018), and bla NDM–21 (Liu L. et al, 2018), which have been found in 15 species among Enterobacterales [ K. pneumoniae (Espedido et al, 2015; Krishnaraju et al, 2015) , K. oxytoca (Paskova et al, 2018; Yoon et al, 2018), Klebsiella michiganensis, Klebsiella aerogenes, E. coli (Zhu et al, 2016; Pal et al, 2017; Sugawara et al, 2017; Li et al, 2018; Xie et al, 2018) , C. freundii (Zhu et al, 2018) , S. enteric, Enterobacter hormaechei, Enterobacter cloacae (Lü et al, 2018) , Enterobacter asburiae (Paskova et al, 2018) , Enterobacter xiangfangensis (Paskova et al, 2018) , Cronobacter sakazakii, Raoultella planticola, Raoultella ornithinolytica (Paskova et al, 2018), and Kluyvera intermedia (Paskova et al, 2018)] from 13 different countries around the world thus far. These countries are China (Zhu et al, 2016; Li et al, 2018; Liu Z. et al, 2018; Xie et al, 2018), the Czech Republic (Paskova et al, 2018), Kuwait (Pal et al, 2017), Korea (Yoon et al, 2018), Oman (Pal et al, 2017), United States, Sweden, Myanmar (Sugawara et al, 2017), Vietnam, India (Krishnaraju et al, 2015), Arabian Peninsula (Pal et al, 2017), Canada, and Australia (Espedido et al, 2015).…”