Plasmid-mediated colistin resistance mechanisms: Is it time to revise our approach to selective digestive decontamination?

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 149-150

  Rawson, Timothy Miles ^a   Moore, Luke Stephen Prockter ^a   Hatcher, James Christopher ^b   Donaldson, Hugo ^b   Holmes, Alison Helen ^a,b  

^a Queen Mary University of London and Barts NIHR BRC NHS Trust National Institute for Health and Care Research   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLISTIN; POLYMYXIN;

ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; PLASMID; SWINE DISEASES;

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

EID: 84957646968     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(15)00539-3     Document Type: Letter

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