High rates of human faecal carriage of mcr-1-positive multi-drug resistant isolates emerge in China in association with successful plasmid families
Lan-Lan Zhong, Hang TT Phan, Xi Huang, Karina Doris-Vihta, Anna E Sheppard, Kun-Jiao Zeng, Hong-Yu Li, Xue-Fei Zhang, Sandip Patil, Yan-Fen Zhang, Cong Shen, Derrick W Crook, A Sarah Walker, Yong Xing, Qian-yi Chen, , Guo-Bao Tian
The paper reports a significant increase in mcr-1-positive multi-drug resistant Enterobacteriaceae in human faecal samples in China, associated with diverse plasmid families and chromosomal integration.
bioRxiv · Feb 7, 2017 · PreprintMicrobiology