Detection of mcr-1 gene in a clinical Escherichia coli strain in North Carolina: first report

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Pathology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
• ² NC State Laboratory of Public Health, Raleigh, NC, USA.
• ³ Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA; Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA.
• ⁴ Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA.
• ⁵ Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA; Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA; Departments of Pharmacology, Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Biochemistry, and Proteomics and Bioinformatics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA; CWRU-Cleveland VAMC Center for Antimicrobial Resistance and Epidemiology (Case VA CARES), Cleveland, OH, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Pathology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
• ⁷ Department of Pathology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA. Electronic address: epalave@wakehealth.edu.