Article
Fitness barriers to spread of colistin resistance overcome by first establishing niche in patients with enhanced colistin exposure
2021-06-13
Abstract excerpt
There is an urgent need to improve our understanding of how new antibiotic resistant organisms emerge and spread. A high-priority resistance threat is the ST258 lineage of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae . Here, we studied resistance to the last-line drug colistin among ST258 by tracking its evolution across 21 U.S. hospitals over the course of a year. Phylogenetic analysis supported a significant fitne...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 657dcf21-b9d8-5586-95a5-13b9e3337a8c
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.06.11.21258758
