mcr-1 mediated resistance to colistin could be reliant on zinc ions, as a new study seems to suggest. The paper, which was published on the 6th January 2017 in Nature, gives us the first solid evidence for how mcr-1 mediated colistin resistance occurs. This research follows previous work which highlighted that mcr-1 is the first … Read more…
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