Colistin resistance gene mcr-1 in extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing and carbapenemase-producing Gram-negative bacteria in Germany

Collaborators, Affiliations

¹ Institute of Medical Microbiology, Justus Liebig University Giessen and German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner site Giessen-Marburg-Langen, Giessen, Germany.
² Department of Biological Safety, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany.
³ Institute for Animal Hygiene and Environmental Health, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
⁴ Institute of Farm Animal Genetics, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Neustadt-Mariensee, Germany.
⁵ Division of Nosocomial Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistances, Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode Branch, Wernigerode, Germany.
⁶ Institute for Biometry, Epidemiology, and Information Processing, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
⁷ Institute of Medical Microbiology, Justus Liebig University Giessen and German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner site Giessen-Marburg-Langen, Giessen, Germany. Electronic address: trinad.chakraborty@mikrobio.med.uni-giessen.de.

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Linda Falgenhauer et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2016 Mar.

. 2016 Mar;16(3):282-3.

doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(16)00009-8. Epub 2016 Jan 8.

¹ Institute of Medical Microbiology, Justus Liebig University Giessen and German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner site Giessen-Marburg-Langen, Giessen, Germany.
² Department of Biological Safety, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany.
³ Institute for Animal Hygiene and Environmental Health, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
⁴ Institute of Farm Animal Genetics, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Neustadt-Mariensee, Germany.
⁵ Division of Nosocomial Pathogens and Antibiotic Resistances, Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode Branch, Wernigerode, Germany.
⁶ Institute for Biometry, Epidemiology, and Information Processing, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
⁷ Institute of Medical Microbiology, Justus Liebig University Giessen and German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Partner site Giessen-Marburg-Langen, Giessen, Germany. Electronic address: trinad.chakraborty@mikrobio.med.uni-giessen.de.

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Emergence of plasmid-mediated colistin resistance mechanism MCR-1 in animals and human beings in China: a microbiological and molecular biological study.
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