Molecular characteristics of mcr-1-carrying plasmids and new mcr-1 variant recovered from polyclonal clinical Escherichia coli from Argentina and Canada

• Nathalie Tijet ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nathalie Tijet, Diego Faccone

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Public Health Ontario Laboratory, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Diego Faccone ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nathalie Tijet, Diego Faccone

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Servicio Antimicrobianos, National and Regional Reference Laboratory in Antimicrobial Resistance, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas (INEI)-ANLIS “Dr. C. Malbran”, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Melina Rapoport,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Servicio Antimicrobianos, National and Regional Reference Laboratory in Antimicrobial Resistance, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas (INEI)-ANLIS “Dr. C. Malbran”, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Christine Seah,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Public Health Ontario Laboratory, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Fernando Pasterán,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Servicio Antimicrobianos, National and Regional Reference Laboratory in Antimicrobial Resistance, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas (INEI)-ANLIS “Dr. C. Malbran”, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Paola Ceriana,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Servicio Antimicrobianos, National and Regional Reference Laboratory in Antimicrobial Resistance, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas (INEI)-ANLIS “Dr. C. Malbran”, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Ezequiel Albornoz,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Servicio Antimicrobianos, National and Regional Reference Laboratory in Antimicrobial Resistance, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas (INEI)-ANLIS “Dr. C. Malbran”, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Alejandra Corso,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Servicio Antimicrobianos, National and Regional Reference Laboratory in Antimicrobial Resistance, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas (INEI)-ANLIS “Dr. C. Malbran”, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Alejandro Petroni,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Servicio Antimicrobianos, National and Regional Reference Laboratory in Antimicrobial Resistance, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas (INEI)-ANLIS “Dr. C. Malbran”, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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• Roberto G. Melano

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: roberto.melano@oahpp.ca

  Affiliations Public Health Ontario Laboratory, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0268-1028

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