High rates of CTX-M-15-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae in wild boars and Barbary macaques in Algeria

This is the first report of CTX-M-15-producing E. coli and K. pneumoniae in wild animals from Algeria. The results show that African wildlife can act as a reservoir of the epidemic E. coli clone ST131 producing CTX-M-15, suggesting that this lineage can survive in different ecological niches and adapt to different hosts.