mcr-3 and mcr-4 Variants in Carbapenemase-Producing Clinical Enterobacteriaceae Do Not Confer Phenotypic Polymyxin Resistance

J Clin Microbiol. 2018 Feb 22;56(3):e01562-17. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01562-17. Print 2018 Mar.

Jeanette W P Teo¹, Marimuthu Kalisvar^{2

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4}, Indumathi Venkatachalam⁵, Oon Tek Ng^{2

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6}, Raymond T P Lin^{7

8}, Sophie Octavia⁸

¹ National University Hospital, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Singapore [email protected].
² Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases, Singapore.
³ National Centre for Infectious Diseases, Singapore.
⁴ National University of Singapore, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore.
⁵ Singapore General Hospital, Department of Infectious Diseases, Singapore.
⁶ Nanyang Technological University, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore.
⁷ National University Hospital, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Singapore.
⁸ National Public Health Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Singapore.

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Keywords: Enterobacteriaceae; PCR; antibiotic resistance; bioinformatics; next-generation sequencing; plasmid; polymyxin.

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