Global Distribution of mcr Gene Variants in 214K Metagenomic Samples

ABSTRACT Since the initial discovery of a mobilized colistin resistance gene (mcr-1), several other variants have been reported, some of which might have circulated a while beforehand. Publicly available metagenomic data provide an opportunity to reanalyze samples to understand the evolutionary hist...

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Main Authors: Hannah-Marie Martiny, Patrick Munk, Christian Brinch, Judit Szarvas, Frank M. Aarestrup, Thomas Nordahl Petersen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2022-04-01
Series:mSystems
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msystems.00105-22