Multiple Copies of blaNDM-5 Located on Conjugative Megaplasmids from Porcine Escherichia coli Sequence Type 218 Isolates

Multiple Copies of bla_NDM-5 Located on Conjugative Megaplasmids from Porcine Escherichia coli Sequence Type 218 Isolates

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2020 Apr 21;64(5):e02134-19. doi: 10.1128/AAC.02134-19. Print 2020 Apr 21.

¹ College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China.
² Institute of Microbiology and Epizootics, Centre for Infection Medicine, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
³ School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China.
⁴ College of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China xddu@henau.edu.cn.

^# Contributed equally.

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Keywords: Escherichia coli; blaNDM-5; carbapenem resistance; swine; translocatable unit.