Co-occurrence of extended spectrum β lactamase and MCR-1 encoding genes on plasmids

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¹ Unité Antibiorésistance et Virulence Bactériennes, ANSES Site de Lyon, F-69364 Lyon, France.
² Emerging Antibiotic Resistance Unit, Medical and Molecular Microbiology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Science, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
³ Emerging Antibiotic Resistance Unit, Medical and Molecular Microbiology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Science, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland; HFR-Hôpital Cantonal, Fribourg, Switzerland.
⁴ Unité Antibiorésistance et Virulence Bactériennes, ANSES Site de Lyon, F-69364 Lyon, France. Electronic address: jean-yves.madec@anses.fr.

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Marisa Haenni et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2016 Mar.

. 2016 Mar;16(3):281-2.

doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(16)00007-4. Epub 2016 Jan 8.

¹ Unité Antibiorésistance et Virulence Bactériennes, ANSES Site de Lyon, F-69364 Lyon, France.
² Emerging Antibiotic Resistance Unit, Medical and Molecular Microbiology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Science, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
³ Emerging Antibiotic Resistance Unit, Medical and Molecular Microbiology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Science, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland; HFR-Hôpital Cantonal, Fribourg, Switzerland.
⁴ Unité Antibiorésistance et Virulence Bactériennes, ANSES Site de Lyon, F-69364 Lyon, France. Electronic address: jean-yves.madec@anses.fr.

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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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