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Occurrence and incidence of Garlic Latent Virus in Rakkyo (<I>Allium chinense</I> G. Don)
Emergence of a colistin-resistant Escherichia coli clinical isolate harboring mcr-1 in Japan
The mcr-1 is a gene encoding a phosphoethanolamine transferase, which confers resistance to colistin by transferring phosphoethanolamine to lipid A. We describe here the emergence of a colistin-resistant Escherichia coli clinical isolate harboring plasmid-mediated mcr-1 in Japan. The isolate belonged to ST5702 and is suspected to come from livestock and transmitted to human. This is the first report of a clinical isolate harboring mcr-1 in Japan
Emergence of IncX4 plasmids encoding mcr-1 in a clinical isolate of Klebsiella pneumoniae in Japan
The mcr-1 gene encodes a phosphoethanolamine transferase that confers resistance to colistin by transferring phosphoethanolamine to lipid A. A 33-kb IncX4 plasmid harboring mcr-1 was detected in a Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate and two Escherichia coli isolates, and a 66-kb IncI2 plasmid was detected in three E. coli isolates in hospitals in Okinawa, Japan. Keywords: Colistin resistance, MCR-1 producing Klebsiella pneumoniae, IncX4 plasmid harboring mcr-