Mobile MCR-1-associated resistance to colistin in Poland

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 2331-2333

  Izdebski, R ^a   Baraniak, A ^a   Bojarska, K ^a   Urbanowicz, P ^a   Fiett, J ^a   Pomorska Wesolowska M ^b   Hryniewicz, W ^a   Gniadkowski, M ^a   Zabicka, D ^a  

^a NATIONAL MEDICINES INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b KORLAB Medical Laboratories   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AZTREONAM; BETA LACTAMASE AMPC; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLOXACILLIN; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERTAPENEM; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TEMOCILLIN; TETRACYCLINE; TIGECYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL GENE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MCR-1 GENE; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; POLAND; ANIMAL; CASE REPORT; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVESTOCK; MICROBIOLOGY; PLASMID; TRANSMISSION; URINE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COLISTIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; LIVESTOCK; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMIDS; POLAND; URINE;

EID: 84978866948     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkw261     Document Type: Letter

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