First report of the plasmid-borne colistin resistance gene (mcr-1) in Proteus mirabilis isolated from domestic and sewer waters in Syrian refugee camps

Travel Med Infect Dis. 2020 Jan-Feb:33:101482. doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2019.101482. Epub 2019 Sep 12.

Authors

Abd Allah Alhaj Sulaiman¹, Issmat I Kassem²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon.
² Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon; Center for Food Safety, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Georgia, 1109 Experiment Street, Griffin, GA, 30223-1797, USA. Electronic address: ik12@aub.edu.lb.

PMID: 31521803
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2019.101482

No abstract available

Keywords: Antibiotic resistance; Colistin; Lebanon; Proteus mirabilis; Syrian refugees; Water; mcr-1.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial / genetics
Escherichia coli Proteins / genetics
Escherichia coli Proteins / isolation & purification*
Humans
Proteus mirabilis / drug effects*
Proteus mirabilis / genetics*
Proteus mirabilis / isolation & purification
Refugee Camps
Sewage / microbiology*
Syria
Water Microbiology*

Substances

Escherichia coli Proteins
MCR-1 protein, E coli
Sewage