E A R Portal, K Sands, C Farley, I Boostrom, E Jones, M Barrell, M J Carvalho, R Milton, K Iregbu, F Modibbo, S Uwaezuoke, C Akpulu, L Audu, C Edwin, A H Yusuf, A Adeleye, A S Mukkadas, D Maduekwe, S Gambo, J Sani, T R Walsh, O B Spiller
A mobile colistin resistance gene mcr was first reported in 2016 in China and has since been found with increasing prevalence across South-East Asia. Here we survey the presence of mcr genes in 4907 rectal swabs from mothers and neonates from three hospital sites across Nigeria; a country with limited availability or history of colistin use clinically. Forty mother and seven neonatal swabs carried mcr genes in a range of bacterial species: 46 Enterobacter spp. and single isolates of; Shigella, E. coli and Klebsiella quasipneumoniae...
March 14, 2024: Nature Communications