mcr-5 and a novel mcr-5.2 variant in Escherichia coli isolates from food and food-producing animals, Germany, 2010 to 2017

J Antimicrob Chemother. 2018 May 1;73(5):1433-1435. doi: 10.1093/jac/dky020.

Authors

Jens A Hammerl¹, Maria Borowiak¹, Silvia Schmoger¹, Dina Shamoun¹, Mirjam Grobbel¹, Burkhard Malorny¹, Bernd-Alois Tenhagen¹, Annemarie Käsbohrer^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Department for Biological Safety, Max-Dohrn Strasse 8-10, D-10589 Berlin, Germany.
² Institute for Veterinary Public Health, University of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinärplatz 1, 1210 Vienna, Austria.

PMID: 29444245
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dky020

No abstract available

Publication types

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

MeSH terms

Animal Diseases / microbiology*
Animals
Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology
Blood / microbiology*
Colistin / pharmacology
Drug Resistance, Bacterial*
Escherichia coli / drug effects*
Escherichia coli / isolation & purification
Escherichia coli Infections / microbiology
Escherichia coli Infections / veterinary*
Escherichia coli Proteins / genetics*
Food Microbiology*
Genotype
Germany
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Sequence Homology
Transferases (Other Substituted Phosphate Groups) / genetics*

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Escherichia coli Proteins
MCR-5 protein, E coli
Transferases (Other Substituted Phosphate Groups)
Colistin