The global distribution and spread of the mobilized colistin resistance gene mcr-1.
Ruobing Wang,
Lucy van Dorp,
Liam P Shaw,
Phelim Bradley,
Qi Wang,
Xiaojuan Wang,
Longyang Jin,
Qing Zhang,
Yuqing Liu,
Adrien Rieux,
Thamarai Dorai-Schneiders,
Lucy Anne Weinert,
Zamin Iqbal,
Xavier Didelot,
Hui Wang,
Francois Balloux
Sep 10, 2018
Colistin represents one of the few available drugs for treating infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae. As such, the recent plasmid-mediated spread of the colistin resistance gene mcr-1 poses a significant...