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Spread of MCR-3 Colistin Resistance in China: An Epidemiological, Genomic and Mechanistic Study
27 Jul 2018
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BACKGROUND: Mobilized resistance to colistin is evolving rapidly and its global dissemination poses a severe threat to human health and safety. Transferable colistin resistance gene, mcr-3, first identified in Shandong, China, has already been found in several countries in multidrug-resistant human infections. Here we track the spread of mcr-3 within 13 provinces in China and provide a complete characterization...
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