First report of an mcr-1-harboring Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serotype 4,5,12:i:- strain isolated from blood of a patient in Switzerland

Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2018 Nov;52(5):740-741. doi: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2018.08.003. Epub 2018 Aug 10.

Authors

Laura M Carroll¹, Katrin Zurfluh², Hyein Jang³, Gopal Gopinath³, Magdalena Nüesch-Inderbinen², Laurent Poirel⁴, Patrice Nordmann⁴, Roger Stephan², Claudia Guldimann⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
² Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
³ Center of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Laurel, MD 20708, USA.
⁴ Emerging Antibiotic Resistance, Medical and Molecular Microbiology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Fribourg, and National Reference Center for Emerging Antibiotic Resistance, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.
⁵ Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Electronic address: claudia.guldimann@uzh.ch.

PMID: 30099057
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2018.08.003

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter

MeSH terms

Aged
Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology*
Bacteremia / diagnosis*
Bacteremia / microbiology
Bacteremia / pathology
Colistin / pharmacology*
Conjugation, Genetic
Drug Resistance, Bacterial*
Escherichia coli Proteins / genetics*
Gene Transfer, Horizontal
Humans
Male
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Salmonella Infections / diagnosis*
Salmonella Infections / microbiology
Salmonella Infections / pathology
Salmonella enterica / drug effects
Salmonella enterica / genetics*
Salmonella enterica / isolation & purification
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Serogroup
Switzerland

Substances

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