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Using honey bee colonies to monitor phenotypic and genotypic resistance to colistin.
Chemosphere - 1 Aug 2024
Resci Ilaria, Zavatta Laura, Piva Silvia, Mondo Elisabetta, Guerra Irene, Nanetti Antonio, Bortolotti Laura, Cilia Giovanni
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Colistin is a polymyxin antimicrobic mainly used to treat infection caused by multi-drug resistant Gram-negative bacteria. Mechanisms of colistin resistance are linked to the mobile colistin resistance (mcr) genes, which are transferable within mobile plasmids. Currently, there is limited research on the environmental dissemination of these genes. The behavioural and morphological characteristics of Apis...
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