Colistin resistance in Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae in humans and backyard animals in Ecuador

• Autors principals: Carlos Bastidas-Caldes (Autor), Salomé Guerrero-Freire (Autor), Nimer Ortuño-Gutiérrez (Autor), Temmy Sunyoto (Autor), Cícero Armídio Gomes-Dias (Autor), Maria Soledad Ramírez (Autor), William Calero-Cáceres (Autor), Anthony D. Harries (Autor), Joaquín Rey (Autor), Jacobus H. de Waard (Autor), Manuel Calvopiña (Autor)
• Format: Llibre
• Publicat: Pan American Health Organization, 2023-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Matèries: article
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Objective. Colistin is an antibiotic of last resort for treating serious Gram-negative bacterial infections. However, the misuse of colistin, especially as an animal growth promoter, has contributed to increasing antimicrobial resistance, mediated mainly through plasmid transfer of the mcr-1 gene. T...