A recent article in Eurosurveillance highlights the detection of the colistin resistance gene, mcr-1, from a Danish patient.
The plasmid-mediated colistin resistance gene,mcr-1, was detected in an Escherichia coli isolate from a Danish patient with bloodstream infection and in five E. coli isolates from imported chicken meat. One isolate from chicken meat belonged to the epidemic spreading sequence type ST131. In addition to IncN2, an incX4 replicon was found to be linked to mcr-1. This report follows a recent detection of mcr-1 in E. coli from animals, food and humans in China.
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