Detection of colistin resistance in the highly virulent Escherichia coli ST131 H30Rx clone in Greece

J Glob Antimicrob Resist. 2020 Mar:20:31-32. doi: 10.1016/j.jgar.2019.11.014. Epub 2019 Nov 28.

Authors

K Dafopoulou¹, B B Xavier², O Zarkotou³, M Orfanidou³, H Goossens², A Tsakris³, S Malhotra-Kumar², S Pournaras³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. Electronic address: kd.dafopoulou@gmail.com.
² Laboratory of Medical Microbiology, Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
³ Department of Microbiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

PMID: 31786358
DOI: 10.1016/j.jgar.2019.11.014

No abstract available

Publication types

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

MeSH terms

Aged
Colistin / pharmacology*
Computational Biology
Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial*
Escherichia coli / classification*
Escherichia coli / genetics
Escherichia coli / isolation & purification
Escherichia coli / pathogenicity
Escherichia coli Infections / microbiology*
Escherichia coli Proteins / genetics
Greece
High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
Humans
Multilocus Sequence Typing
Whole Genome Sequencing
beta-Lactamases / genetics

Substances

Escherichia coli Proteins
beta-Lactamases
Colistin