It confers resistance to colistin and was isolated from human, animal, and environmental strains of Enterobacteriaceae, raising serious global health concerns. In ...

4. Kuo SC, Huang WC, Wang HY, et al: Colistin resistance gene mcr-1 in Escherichia coli isolates from human and retailed meats, Taiwan. J. Antimicrob ...

Study of mcr-1 Gene-Mediated Colistin Resistance in Enterobacteriaceae Isolated from Humans and Animals in Different Countries · Abstract · Share and Cite.

The mcr-1 gene is primarily found in E. coli and K. pneumoniae of human origin, which is in line with our study. The plasmid-mediated Col-R ...

The earliest detected mcr-positive bacterium from humans was a mcr-1-harboring strain of Shigella sonnei in 2008, which was isolated from a hospitalized child in​ ...

The gene was first discovered in E. coli (strain SHP45) from a pig in China April 2011 and published in November 2015. ... It was identified by independent ...

Colistin is a last resort antibiotic used for the treatment of human ... The high prevalence of the mcr-1 gene in poultry E. coli isolates with ...

Initially, the mcr-1 gene was carried on IncI2-type plasmid, but has also been ... Five isolates were from animals and 27 from humans (Table 1).

Colistin resistance mediated by mobile mcr-1 gene has raised concern during the last years. After steep increase in mcr-1 reports, other mcr-gene variants ...