Plasmid-Mediated mcr-1 Gene in Colistin-Resistant Clinical Isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae in France and Laos

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2016 Oct 21;60(11):6994-6995. doi: 10.1128/AAC.00960-16. Print 2016 Nov.

Authors

Jean-Marc Rolain¹, Marie Kempf², Thongpan Leangapichart³, Selma Chabou³, Abiola Olumuyiwa Olaitan³, Stéphanie Le Page³, Serge Morand⁴, Didier Raoult³

Affiliations

¹ Aix-Marseille Université, URMITE, Marseille, France jean-marc.rolain@univ-amu.fr.
² Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Institut de Biologie en Santé-PBH, CHU, Angers, France.
³ Aix-Marseille Université, URMITE, Marseille, France.
⁴ Institut des Sciences de l'Évolution, CNRS-IRD-UM2, CC065, Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France, and CNRS-CIRAD, Centre d'Infectiologie Christophe Mérieux du Laos, Vientiane, Lao Democratic People's Republic.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology
Colistin / pharmacology
Drug Resistance, Bacterial / genetics*
France
Klebsiella pneumoniae / drug effects*
Klebsiella pneumoniae / genetics*
Klebsiella pneumoniae / isolation & purification
Laos
Plasmids / genetics*

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Colistin