Emergence of plasmid-mediated colistin resistance gene mcr-1 in a clinical Escherichia coli isolate from Egypt

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 3249-3250

  Elnahriry, Shimaa S ^a,b   Khalifa, Hazim O ^a,c   Soliman, Ahmed M ^a   Ahmed, Ashraf M ^a,c   Hussein, Alaaddin M ^b   Shimamoto, Toshi ^a   Shimamoto, Tadashi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b University of Sadat City   (Egypt)

^c Kafrelsheikh University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; KANAMYCIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; POLYMYXIN B; TETRACYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; MCR-1 PROTEIN, E COLI;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; DNA SEQUENCE; EGYPT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; INTEGRON; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETTER; MCR 1 GENE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COLISTIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EGYPT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HUMANS; PLASMIDS;

EID: 84964861194     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00269-16     Document Type: Letter

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