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SUBMITTER: Carfora V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6108180 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in microbiology 20180817
Colistin-resistance mediated by mobilisable and plasmid-borne <i>mcr</i> genes has emerged worldwide, threatening the efficacy of colistin, a last resort antibiotic increasingly used for treating human invasive infections by multidrug-resistant or extensively drug-resistant <i>Enterobacteriaceae</i>. In this study, we report the first evidence of <i>mcr</i>-1-mediated colistin resistance in four multidrug resistant (MDR) out of 324 <i>Salmonella</i> infantis from the Italian antimicrobial resist ...[more]