background and objectives: calamus rotang is used in traditional medicine. regarding the previous phytochemical screening of methanol extract of calamus rotang l. fruits (mcr), this study was performed to find out the antidiarrheal and hypoglycemic effects of the experimented extract in rodents. methods: castor oil induced diarrheal test was followed for screening anti-diarrheal effect of mcr. ...

UNLABELLED Colistin is increasingly used as an antibiotic of last resort for the treatment of carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative infections. The plasmid-borne colistin resistance gene mcr-1 was initially identified in animal and clinical samples from China and subsequently reported worldwide, including in the United States. Of particular concern is the spread of mcr-1 into carbapenem-resistant ...

Dear Editor, Following the recent description of transmissible plasmid-mediated colistin resistance encoded by mcr-1 in clinical and veterinary Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates in China,1 several groups have reported mcr-1 in colistin-resistant isolates from humans and food animals across Asia2–4 to Europe.5–8 It is evident that mcr-1 has disseminated globally. We performed a...

The free chromophores (chr) extracted from macromomycin (MCR) and auromomycin (AUR) showed different IR spectra in KBr tablets and different CD spectra in ethanol or methanol solution. Chr-MCR contained a greater amount of alkyl moieties than chr-AUR as shown by much stronger IR absorbance at 2960 cm-1. The IR spectra of MCR, AUR and their apo-proteins (apo) in D2O showed that major parts of th...

The recently discovered colistin resistance-encoding element, mcr-1, adds to the list of mobile resistance genes whose products rapidly erode the antimicrobial efficacy of not only the commonly used antibiotics, but also the last line agents of carbapenems and colistin. The relative prevalence of mcr-1-bearing strains in various ecological niches including 1,371 food samples, 480 animal faecal ...

Antibiotic failure is occurring worldwide. In a routine surveillance study on antibioticresistance genes (ARGs) in natural water bodies, we noted the detection of colistin-resistance gene mcr-1, previously identified in Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from human beings and animals in several countries. The mcr-1 gene might be present in water environments, because aquatic ec...

Recently, the plasmid-mediated colistin resistance gene mcr-1 was found in Enterobacteriaceae from humans, pigs and retail meat in China. Several reports have documented global presence of the gene in Enterobacteriaceae from humans, food animals and food since. We screened several well-characterised strain collections of Enterobacteriaceae, obtained from retail chicken meat and hospitalised pat...

The emergence of the mobilized colistin resistance gene, representing a novel mechanism for bacterial drug resistance, challenges the last resort against the severe infections by Gram-negative bacteria with multi-drug resistances. Very recently, we showed the diversity in the mcr-1-carrying plasmid reservoirs from the gut microbiota. Here, we reported that a similar but more complex scenario is...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to develop a simple assay for rapid detection of the mcr-1 gene, recently identified as a source of plasmid-mediated acquired resistance to polymyxins in Enterobacteriaceae. METHODS A SYBR Green-based real-time PCR assay was designed for detection of the mcr-1 gene. This assay was applied to cultured bacteria and to spiked human and cattle stools. RESULTS...

Colistin resistance was investigated in 1,696 isolates collected from 2007 to 2014 within the frame of the French livestock antimicrobial resistance surveillance programme. The mcr-1 gene was detected in all commensal Escherichia coli isolates with a minimum inhibitory concentration to colistin above the 2 mg/L cut-off value (n=23). In poultry, mcr-1 prevalence was 5.9% in turkeys and 1.8% in b...