The recently discovered colistin resistance-encoding element, mcr-1, adds to the list of mobile resistance genes whose products rapidly erode the antimicrobial efficacy of not only the commonly used antibiotics, but also the last line agents of carbapenems and colistin. The relative prevalence of mcr-1-bearing strains in various ecological niches including 1,371 food samples, 480 animal faecal ...

Antibiotic failure is occurring worldwide. In a routine surveillance study on antibioticresistance genes (ARGs) in natural water bodies, we noted the detection of colistin-resistance gene mcr-1, previously identified in Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from human beings and animals in several countries. The mcr-1 gene might be present in water environments, because aquatic ec...

Recently, the plasmid-mediated colistin resistance gene mcr-1 was found in Enterobacteriaceae from humans, pigs and retail meat in China. Several reports have documented global presence of the gene in Enterobacteriaceae from humans, food animals and food since. We screened several well-characterised strain collections of Enterobacteriaceae, obtained from retail chicken meat and hospitalised pat...

The emergence of the mobilized colistin resistance gene, representing a novel mechanism for bacterial drug resistance, challenges the last resort against the severe infections by Gram-negative bacteria with multi-drug resistances. Very recently, we showed the diversity in the mcr-1-carrying plasmid reservoirs from the gut microbiota. Here, we reported that a similar but more complex scenario is...

Colistin resistant Enterobacteriaceae have emerged in humans, food producing animals and food. The aim of this study was to assess the occurrence of MCR-1 and MCR-2 producers among Enterobacteriaceae isolated from companion animals admitted to the University of Zürich veterinary clinic. A total of 347 isolates (231 from dogs, 116 from cats) were analysed. Thereof, 274 (79%) were from urine and ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to develop a simple assay for rapid detection of the mcr-1 gene, recently identified as a source of plasmid-mediated acquired resistance to polymyxins in Enterobacteriaceae. METHODS A SYBR Green-based real-time PCR assay was designed for detection of the mcr-1 gene. This assay was applied to cultured bacteria and to spiked human and cattle stools. RESULTS...

Colistin resistance was investigated in 1,696 isolates collected from 2007 to 2014 within the frame of the French livestock antimicrobial resistance surveillance programme. The mcr-1 gene was detected in all commensal Escherichia coli isolates with a minimum inhibitory concentration to colistin above the 2 mg/L cut-off value (n=23). In poultry, mcr-1 prevalence was 5.9% in turkeys and 1.8% in b...

The emergence of Enterobacteriaceae strains resistant to both colistin and carbapenem, which harbor the mobile resistance (mcr) gene, has become a significant clinical public health concern. aim this study was identify with co-resistance carbapenem gain further understanding antimicrobial characteristics these in South Korea. Bacterial identification performed using MALDI Biotyper Vitek2 compac...

Cognitive disorders represent a leading cause of disability in the aging population, of which dementia has the highest global burden. Early signs of dementia such as slow gait and memory complaints are known to present well before the overt manifestation of the disease. Motoric cognitive risk (MCR) syndrome characterized by the simultaneous presence of gait disturbances and memory complaints in...

In document processing, segmentation is done to uniquely identify each foreground connected region of an image by specifying its minimum containing rectangle (MCR). MCR is the rectangle with minimum dimensions that completely encloses a geometric pattern. In this paper, we present a two-step MCR detection algorithm and its parallelization method. The first step determines the boundary of each c...