Screening for fecal carriage of MCR-producing Enterobacteriaceae in healthy humans and primary care patients.
Katrin ZurfluhRoger StephanAndreas WidmerLaurent PoirelPatrice NordmannHans-Jakob NüeschHerbert HächlerMagdalena Nüesch-InderbinenPublished in: Antimicrobial resistance and infection control (2017)
There is no evidence for the presence of MCR-producers in the fecal flora of healthy people or primary care patients. Therefore, the risk of transfer of mcr genes from animals, food or the environment to humans is likely to be low in Switzerland.
Keyphrases
- primary care
- end stage renal disease
- escherichia coli
- multidrug resistant
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- klebsiella pneumoniae
- prognostic factors
- gene expression
- pseudomonas aeruginosa
- patient reported outcomes
- risk assessment
- dna methylation
- climate change
- transcription factor
- patient reported