Prevalence and Characteristics of mcr-1-Producing Escherichia coli in Three Kinds of Poultry in Changsha, China

Colistin is one of the last-line drugs against difficult to treat and multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria. The emergence of mobile colistin resistance gene mcr-1 increased worldwide attention on colistin resistance. mcr-1 is the dominant gene that caused resistance to colistin in chicken-deri...

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Main Authors: Jufang Hu, Jie Yang, Wenxin Chen, Zhihong Liu, Qin Zhao, Hui Yang, Zhiliang Sun, Xiaojun Chen, Jiyun Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2022.840520/full