Emergence of plasmid-borne colistin resistance gene mcr-1 in multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli isolated from irrigation water in Lebanon

Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2019 Jul;54(1):102-104. doi: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2019.05.005. Epub 2019 May 7.

Authors

Zaynab Hmede¹, Abd Allah Alhaj Sulaiman¹, Hadi Jaafar², Issmat I Kassem³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon.
² Department of Agriculture, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon.
³ Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon. Electronic address: ik12@aub.edu.lb.

PMID: 31071466
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2019.05.005

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Agricultural Irrigation
Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology*
Colistin / pharmacology*
Drug Resistance, Bacterial*
Escherichia coli / drug effects
Escherichia coli / genetics
Escherichia coli / isolation & purification*
Escherichia coli Proteins / genetics*
Lebanon
Microbial Sensitivity Tests
Plasmids / analysis*
Water Microbiology*

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Escherichia coli Proteins
MCR-1 protein, E coli
Colistin