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. 2018 Feb 22;56(3):e01562-17.
doi: 10.1128/JCM.01562-17. Print 2018 Mar.

mcr-3 and mcr-4 Variants in Carbapenemase-Producing Clinical Enterobacteriaceae Do Not Confer Phenotypic Polymyxin Resistance

Jeanette W P Teo  1 , Marimuthu Kalisvar  2   3   4 , Indumathi Venkatachalam  5 , Oon Tek Ng  2   3   6 , Raymond T P Lin  7   8 , Sophie Octavia  8
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mcr-3 and mcr-4 Variants in Carbapenemase-Producing Clinical Enterobacteriaceae Do Not Confer Phenotypic Polymyxin Resistance

Jeanette W P Teo et al. J Clin Microbiol. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Enterobacteriaceae; PCR; antibiotic resistance; bioinformatics; next-generation sequencing; plasmid; polymyxin.

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