High prevalence of colistin heteroresistance in specific species and lineages of Enterobacter cloacae complex derived from human clinical specimens

• Main Authors: Shota Fukuzawa (Author), Toyotaka Sato (Author), Kotaro Aoki (Author), Soh Yamamoto (Author), Noriko Ogasawara (Author), Chie Nakajima (Author), Yasuhiko Suzuki (Author), Motohiro Horiuchi (Author), Satoshi Takahashi (Author), Shin-ichi Yokota (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Colistin (CST) is a last-line drug for multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacterial infections. CST-heteroresistant Enterobacter cloacae complex (ECC) has been isolated. However, integrated analysis of epidemiology and resistance mechanisms based on the complete ECC species identi...