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A Phage-Like IncY Plasmid Carrying the mcr-1 Gene in Escherichia coli from a Pig Farm in China

2016; American Society for Microbiology; Volume: 61; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1128/aac.02035-16

1098-6596

Chunping Zhang, Yuqing Feng, Fei Liu, Hui Jiang, Zhina Qu, Lei Meng, Jianfeng Wang, Bing Zhang, Yongfei Hu, Jiabo Ding, Baoli Zhu,

Escherichia coli research studies

We report here a new type of plasmid that carries the mcr-1 gene, the pMCR-1-P3 plasmid, harbored in an Escherichia coli strain isolated from a pig farm in China. pMCR-1-P3 belongs to the IncY incompatibility group and is a phage-like plasmid that contains a large portion of phage-related sequences. The backbone of this plasmid is different from that of other mcr-1-carrying plasmids reported previously.