The field of antibiotic drug discovery and the monitoring of new antibiotic resistance elements
have yet to fully exploit the power of the genome revolution. Despite the fact that the first …

This study describes the characterization of the recently describedSalmonella genomic
island 1 (SGI1) (DA Boyd, GA Peters, L.-K. Ng, and MR Mulvey, FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 189:285–…

A major outbreak involving an Escherichia coli strain that was resistant to expanded-spectrum
cephalosporins occurred in Toronto and surrounding regions in 2000 to 2002. We report …

Objectives Recently, a CTX-M-15 extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing
Escherichia coli O25b-ST131 clone, belonging to the B2 phylogenetic group and with a high …

Between 1 September 2005 and 30 June 2006, 19 medical centers collected 4,180 isolates
recovered from clinical specimens from patients in intensive care units (ICUs) in Canada. …

The Carba NP test was evaluated against a panel of 244 carbapenemase- and non-carbapenemase-producing
Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates. We …

Salmonella genomic island 1 (SGI1) is a genomic island containing an antibiotic resistance
gene cluster identified in several Salmonella enterica serovars. The SGI1 antibiotic …

The MinION sequencer (Oxford Nanopore Technologies) is a paradigm shifting device allowing
rapid, real time long read sequencing of nucleic acids. Yet external benchmarking of this …

The emergence of antibiotic-resistant organisms is a major public health concern, particularly
in hospitals and other health care settings. 1, 2 Antibiotic-resistant organisms appear to be …

Plasmid-borne colistin resistance mediated by mcr-1 may contribute to the dissemination of
pan-resistant Gram-negative bacteria. Here, we show that mcr-1 confers resistance to colistin…