Mobile colistin resistance genes in Escherichia coli from pigs affected by colibacillosis

Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2018 Nov;52(5):744-746. doi: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2018.08.008. Epub 2018 Aug 17.

Authors

Chiara Francesca Magistrali¹, Ludovica Curcio¹, Andrea Luppi², Giovanni Pezzotti¹, Serenella Orsini¹, Silvia Tofani¹, Claudia Feudi³, Alessandra Carattoli⁴, Laura Villa⁵

Affiliations

¹ Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Umbria e delle Marche, Perugia, Italy.
² Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia Romagna, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
³ Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy; Institute of Microbiology and Epizootics, Centre for Infection Medicine, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
⁴ Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
⁵ Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: laura.villa@iss.it.

PMID: 30125679
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2018.08.008

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Animals
Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology*
Colistin / pharmacology*
Drug Resistance, Bacterial*
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli / classification
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli / drug effects*
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli / genetics
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli / isolation & purification
Escherichia coli Infections / microbiology
Escherichia coli Infections / veterinary*
Gene Transfer, Horizontal
Genes, Bacterial
Genotype
Interspersed Repetitive Sequences
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Multilocus Sequence Typing
Plasmids / analysis
Shiga-Toxigenic Escherichia coli / classification
Shiga-Toxigenic Escherichia coli / drug effects*
Shiga-Toxigenic Escherichia coli / genetics
Shiga-Toxigenic Escherichia coli / isolation & purification
Swine
Swine Diseases / microbiology*
Virulence Factors / genetics

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Virulence Factors
Colistin