Emerging plasmid-encoded colistin resistance: The animal world as the culprit?

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 2326-2327

  Poirel, Laurent ^a   Nordmann, Patrice ^a,b  

^a University of Fribourg   (Switzerland)

^b Hopital Cantonal de Fribourg   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM; COLISTIN; ETHANOLAMINE PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; FLORFENICOL; POLYMYXIN B; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; MCR-1 PROTEIN, E COLI;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COLISTIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; PLASMIDS;

EID: 84977145927     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkw074     Document Type: Letter

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