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Detection of Five mcr-9 -Carrying Enterobacterales Isolates in Four Czech Hospitals

Published:2020-12-23 Issue:6 Volume:5 Page:
ISSN:2379-5042
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language:en
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Author:

Bitar Ibrahim¹²,Papagiannitsis Costas C.¹²³^ORCID,Kraftova Lucie¹²,Chudejova Katerina¹²,Mattioni Marchetti Vittoria¹²,Hrabak Jaroslav¹²

Affiliation:

1. Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, and University Hospital in Pilsen, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic

2. Biomedical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic

3. Department of Microbiology, University Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece

Abstract

Infections caused by carbapenemase-producing bacteria have led to the revival of polymyxins as the “last-resort” antibiotic. Since 2016, several reports describing the presence of plasmid-mediated colistin resistance genes, mcr , in different host species and geographic areas were published.

Funder

Czech Health Research Council

Ministry of Education Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic

UK | Lékařská Fakulta v Plzni, Univerzita Karlova

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Molecular Biology,Microbiology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/mSphere.01008-20

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