Friday, 2 September 2016

PRO/AH/EDR> Antibiotic resistance - USA (04): (NJ) colistin/carbapenem, MCR-1, E. coli, human

E. coli -- United States
US researchers say they've identified a strain of _Escherichia coli_ that is resistant to both colistin and carbapenem antibiotics in a United States hospital patient [1].
According to a study published today [30 Aug 2016] in the journal mBio, the strain was isolated from the urine of a 76 year old male patient who was being treated for a urinary tract infection at a New Jersey hospital in 2014. Whole-genome sequencing of the isolate, performed this year [2016], confirmed the presence of

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/2bOLnK9

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