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More Furious Than Ever: <i>Escherichia coli</i>-Acquired Co-resistance Toward Colistin and Carbapenems
28 Jul 2016
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To the Editor—The emergence of plasmid-mediated colistin resistance heralds the breach of the last group of antibiotics, polymyxins. In our previous reports, colistin resistance has been reported in clinical isolates and mutations within the 2 component regularity systems resulting in the constitutive activation and subsequent expression of lipopolysaccharide-modifying genes [1, 2]. Escherichia coli MK108 was...
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