Colistin Resistance Gene mcr-8 in a High-Risk Sequence Type 15 Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolate from Kenya

Cecilia Kyany'a; Lillian Musila

doi:10.1128/MRA.00783-20

Colistin Resistance Gene mcr-8 in a High-Risk Sequence Type 15 Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolate from Kenya

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Sep 24;9(39):e00783-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00783-20.

Authors

Cecilia Kyany'a¹, Lillian Musila²

Affiliations

¹ U.S. Army Medical Research Directorate-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya.
² U.S. Army Medical Research Directorate-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya lillian.musila@usamru-k.org.

Abstract

The emergence and rise of mobile colistin resistance genes are of great global concern due to the ease of transfer of resistance to other bacteria. This report describes the genome of a colistin- and multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate bearing mcr-8, obtained from a hospitalized patient in Kenya.