Detection of an mcr-1-encoding plasmid mediating colistin resistance in Salmonella enterica from retail meat in Portugal

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 2338-2340

  Figueiredo, Rui ^a,b,c   Card, Roderick M ^c   Nunez, Javier ^c   Pomba, Constança ^d   Mendonça, Nuno ^b   Anjum, Muna F ^c   Da Silva, Gabriela Jorge ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; AZTREONAM; CEFAZOLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOTAXIME; CEFOXITIN; CEFPODOXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERTAPENEM; FOSFOMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; MEZLOCILLIN; MOXIFLOXACIN; NITROFURANTOIN; NORFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SULTAMICILLIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LETTER; MCR-1 GENE; MEAT; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PORTUGAL; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; ANIMAL; BOVINE; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PIG; PLASMID; POULTRY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; COLISTIN; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MEAT; PLASMIDS; PORTUGAL; POULTRY; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SWINE;

EID: 84982224063     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkw240     Document Type: Letter

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