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Prevalence of Colistin Resistance Gene mcr-1 and Absence of mcr-2 in Escherichia coli Isolated from Healthy Food-Producing Animals in Japan.

Journal:
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy
Year:
2017
Authors:
Kawanishi, Michiko et al.
Affiliation:
National Veterinary Assay Laboratory · Japan

Abstract

We screened mcr-1 and mcr-2 genes in 9,306 Escherichia coli strains isolated from healthy animals in the Japanese Veterinary Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring (JVARM) system. mcr-1 was detected in 39 strains (5, 20, and 14 strains isolated from cattle, swine, and broilers, respectively), whereas mcr-2 was not detected. mcr-2 was also not detected with the investigation sequence homology search against our curated GenEpid-J database.

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Original publication: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27855068/