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American Society for Microbiology, Microbiology Spectrum, 4(10), 2022
DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.02522-21
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Clinical and Genomic Epidemiology of mcr-9 -Carrying Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales Isolates in Metropolitan Atlanta, 2012 to 2017
Journal article published in 2022 by
Ahmed Babiker 
,
Chris Bower,
Joseph D. Lutgring,
Robert A. Petit,
Jessica Howard-Anderson,
Uzma Ansari,
Gillian McAllister,
Michelle Adamczyk,
Erin Breaker,
Sarah W. Satola,
Jesse T. Jacob ,
Michael H. Woodworth
,
Chris Bower,
Joseph D. Lutgring,
Robert A. Petit,
Jessica Howard-Anderson,
Uzma Ansari,
Gillian McAllister,
Michelle Adamczyk,
Erin Breaker,
Sarah W. Satola,
Jesse T. Jacob ,
Michael H. Woodworth
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract
Colistin is a last-resort antibiotic for multidrug-resistant Gram-negative infections. A recently described allele of the mobile colistin resistance ( mcr ) gene family, designated mcr-9, has been widely reported among Enterobacterales species.