mcr-1-Positive Colistin-Resistant Escherichia coli in Traveler Returning to Canada from China

Emerg Infect Dis. 2016 Sep;22(9):1673-5. doi: 10.3201/eid2209.160177.
No abstract available

Keywords: Canada; China; Escherichia coli; MCR-1; antimicrobial resistance; colistin; microbial; travel-related infections; urinary tract infection.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology
  • Canada
  • China
  • Colistin / pharmacology*
  • Communicable Diseases, Imported*
  • Drug Resistance, Bacterial*
  • Escherichia coli / drug effects*
  • Escherichia coli / genetics*
  • Escherichia coli Infections / diagnosis
  • Escherichia coli Infections / epidemiology
  • Escherichia coli Infections / microbiology*
  • Escherichia coli Infections / transmission*
  • Escherichia coli Proteins / genetics*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Plasmids / genetics
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Travel*

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Escherichia coli Proteins
  • MCR-1 protein, E coli
  • Colistin