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Prevalence of tet(X4) in Escherichia coli From Duck Farms in Southeast China
23 Aug 2021
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Objectives Carbapenems, colistin, and tigecycline are critically important antibiotics in clinics. After the global appearance of blaNDM and mcr mediating the resistance to carbapenems and colistin, respectively, tigecycline becomes the last-resort drug against severe human infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria. Recently, a mobile tigecycline resistance gene tet(X4) has been identified in Escherichia...
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