Dissemination of the mcr-1 colistin resistance gene

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 146-147

  Hu, Yongfei ^a,b,c   Liu, Fei ^a,b,c   Lin, Ivan Y C ^a   Gao, George F ^a,b,d   Zhu, Baoli ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Beijing Key Laboratory of Microbial Drug Resistance and Resistome   (China)

^d CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLISTIN; POLYMYXIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE SEQUENCE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; INFECTION; LETTER; MCR-1 GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; IMMUNOLOGY; PLASMID; SWINE DISEASES;

ANIMALS; COLISTIN; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PLASMIDS; POLYMYXINS; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 84957442317     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(15)00533-2     Document Type: Letter

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