Prevalence of mcr-1 in E. coli from Livestock and Food in Germany, 2010-2015.

Since the first description of a plasmid-mediated colistin resistance gene (mcr-1) in November 2015 multiple reports of mcr-1 positive isolates indicate a worldwide spread of this newly discovered resistance gene in Enterobacteriaceae. Although the occurrence of mcr-1 positive isolates of livestock,...

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Main Authors: Alexandra Irrgang, Nicole Roschanski, Bernd-Alois Tenhagen, Mirjam Grobbel, Tanja Skladnikiewicz-Ziemer, Katharina Thomas, Uwe Roesler, Annemarie Käsbohrer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4959773?pdf=render