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The aim of the study was to screen pregnant women for ESBL producing bacteria in Beirut, Lebanon, to examine their phenotypic and genotypic characterization and to study the association between ESBL colonization with adverse neonatal outcomes. <jats:italic>Method.<\/jats:italic> In this cross-sectional study, vaginal samples from 308 pregnant women at 35\u201337 weeks of gestation were studied during a one-year period. The samples were plated on MacConkey agar and selective MacConkey agar supplemented with ceftazidime. Phenotypic confirmation of ESBL production was performed by double-disc synergy test and all isolates were screened by PCR for the resistance genes bla<jats:sub>SHV<\/jats:sub>, bla<jats:sub>TEM<\/jats:sub>, and bla<jats:sub>CTX-M<\/jats:sub>. Clonal relatedness of <jats:italic>Escherichia coli<\/jats:italic> isolates was investigated by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. <jats:italic>Results.<\/jats:italic> In total, 59 women out of 308 (19.1%) were colonized by ESBL producing gram negative bacteria. Two babies born to mothers colonized with ESBL were diagnosed with sepsis. The susceptibility rates of isolates to other antibiotics were 39% to co-trimoxazole, 49.2% to ciprofloxacin, 91.5% to gentamicin, 18.6% to aztreonam and 35.6% to cefepime. Most of isolates were highly sensitive to meropenem and imipenem, with a susceptibility of 93.2%. PCR was performed on all <jats:italic>E. coli<\/jats:italic> isolates to detect the most common ESBL producing genes; bla<jats:sub>CTX-M <\/jats:sub>was the predominant gene (90.7%), followed by bla<jats:sub>TEM<\/jats:sub> (88.4%) and finally bla<jats:sub>SHV<\/jats:sub> (44.2%). PFGE analysis of 34 <jats:italic>E. coli<\/jats:italic> isolates revealed 22 distinct clusters showing more than 85% similarity. <jats:italic>Conclusion.<\/jats:italic> In conclusion, this study showed that Lebanon has a high prevalence of ESBL carriage in pregnant women. 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