Department of Clinical Analysis, School of Pharmacy, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Euro Surveill. 2016 Apr 28;21(17). doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.17.30214.
During a Brazilian multicentric antimicrobial resistance surveillance study, colistin resistance was investigated in 4,620 Enterobacteriaceae isolated from human, animal, food and environmental samples collected from 2000 to 2016. We present evidence that mcr-1-positive Escherichia coli has been emerging in South America since at least 2012, supporting a previous report on the possible acquisition of mcr-1-harbouring E. coli by European travellers visiting Latin American countries.
在一项巴西多中心抗菌药物耐药性监测研究中,研究人员调查了 2000 年至 2016 年间从人类、动物、食品和环境样本中分离的 4620 株肠杆菌科细菌的黏菌素耐药性。本研究提供了证据,表明 mcr-1 阳性大肠杆菌至少从 2012 年起就在南美洲出现,这支持了之前关于前往拉丁美洲国家的欧洲旅行者可能获得携带 mcr-1 的大肠杆菌的报告。