Epidemiology of mobile colistin resistance (mcr) genes in aquatic environments
ABSTRACT: Colistin is one of the last-line therapies against multidrug-resistant Gram-negative pathogens, especially carbapenemase-producing isolates, making resistance to this compound a major global public-health crisis. Until recently, colistin resistance in Gram-negative bacteria was known to ar...
Main Authors: | Zineb Cherak, Lotfi Loucif, Abdelhamid Moussi, Jean-Marc Rolain |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2021-12-01
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Series: | Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213716521001946 |
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