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SUBMITTER: Carattoli A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5553062 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Carattoli Alessandra A Villa Laura L Feudi Claudia C Curcio Ludovica L Orsini Serenella S Luppi Andrea A Pezzotti Giovanni G Magistrali Chiara Francesca CF
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin 20170801 31
A novel mcr colistin resistance gene was identified in a strain of Salmonella enterica, monophasic variant of serovar Typhimurium (4,5,12:i:- ), isolated from a pig at slaughter in Italy in 2013, and in Escherichia coli strains collected during routine diagnostic of post-weaning diarrhoea in pigs from Spain and Belgium in 2015 and 2016. Immediate implementation of mcr-screening including this novel gene variant is required for Salmonella and E. coli from humans and food-producing animals in Euro ...[more]