A New Bacterial Mutation Has Been Found In China Which Is Resistant To All Antibiotics

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Just opened this email that I received last month. Apparently the mutation has been found in the U.S.

Alert to U.S. Healthcare Facilities: First mcr-1 Gene in E. coli Bacteria found in a Human in the United States
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is collaborating in a coordinated public health response to the Department of Defense (DoD) announcement on May 26 of the first mcr-1 gene found in bacteria from a human in the United States. Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria carrying the mcr-1 gene were found in a urine sample from a person in Pennsylvania with no recent travel outside of the United States who presented to a clinic with a urinary tract infection. The mcr-1 gene makes bacteria resistant to the antibiotic colistin, which is used as a last-resort drug to treat patients with infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria, including carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE). The mcr-1 gene exists on a plasmid, a small piece of DNA that is capable of moving from one bacterium to another, potentially spreading antibiotic resistance to other bacterial species. CDC is issuing this HAN notice as a reminder to U.S. healthcare facilities about recommendations to prevent antibiotic resistant infections and alert them to additional recommendations for detecting and reporting bacteria with the mcr-1 gene.

To view this HAN in its entirety, continue to the CDC Website. http://emergency.cdc.gov/han/han00390.asp


For More Information
CDC Facility Guidance for Control of CRE: November 2015 update: http://www.cdc.gov/hai/pdfs/cre/CRE-guidance-508.pdf

Responding to new Forms of Antibiotic Resistance: http://www.cdc.gov/hai/pdfs/toolkits/Responding-to-New-Forms-of-Antibiotic-Resistance.pdf

Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories, 5th Edition:http://www.cdc.gov/biosafety/publications/bmbl5/BMBL.pdf

CDC Vital Signs Report: Making Health Care Safer, Protect Patients from Antibiotic Resistance:http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/protect-patients/index.html
 
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