| Literature DB >> 27572412 |
Age Brauer1, Kaidi Telling2, Mailis Laht3, Piret Kalmus4, Irja Lutsar2, Maido Remm1, Veljo Kisand3, Tanel Tenson5.
Abstract
A plasmid carrying the colistin resistance gene mcr-1 was isolated from a pig slurry sample in Estonia. The gene was present on a 33,311-bp plasmid of the IncX4 group. mcr-1 is the only antibiotic resistance gene on the plasmid, with the other genes mainly coding for proteins involved in conjugative DNA transfer (taxA, taxB, taxC, trbM, and the pilX operon). The plasmid pESTMCR was present in three phylogenetically very different Escherichia coli strains, suggesting that it has high potential for horizontal transfer.Entities:
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27572412 PMCID: PMC5075111 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00443-16
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191