Communications Medicine (May 2022)

A prospective matched case-control study on the genomic epidemiology of colistin-resistant Enterobacterales from Dutch patients

  • Karuna E. W. Vendrik,
  • Angela de Haan,
  • Sandra Witteveen,
  • Antoni P. A. Hendrickx,
  • Fabian Landman,
  • Daan W. Notermans,
  • Paul Bijkerk,
  • Annelot F. Schoffelen,
  • Sabine C. de Greeff,
  • Cornelia C. H. Wielders,
  • Jelle J. Goeman,
  • Ed J. Kuijper,
  • Leo. M. Schouls,
  • ColRE survey consortium

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-022-00115-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Vendrik et al performed a prospective matched case-control study on the genomic epidemiology of colistin-resistant Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae from Dutch patients. Colistin resistance is present, but uncommon in the Netherlands and caused by the mcr gene in a minority of colistin-resistant isolates.