Emergence of colistin resistance in multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli strains isolated from cancer patients

• Main Authors: Mai M. Zafer (Author), Hadir A. El-Mahallawy (Author), Asmaa Abdulhak (Author), Magdy A. Amin (Author), Mohamed H. Al-Agamy (Author), Hesham H. Radwan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Colistin resistance is mainly driven by alterations in the Gram-negative outer membrane lipopolysaccharides and is caused, in most cases, by mutations in mgrB gene. However, the recent emergence of plasmid-encoded colistin resistance among Enterobacteriaceae strains represents a...