Volume 22, Number 9—September 2016
Letter
mcr-1–Positive Colistin-Resistant Escherichia coli in Traveler Returning to Canada from China
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Figure. The mcr-1–containing contig from Escherichia coli isolated from a traveler returning to Canada from China compared to pHNSHP45 plasmid. BRIG (6) was used to generate a visual representation of the 60,599-nt contig assembled from the sequencing of the mcr-1–positive isolate to pHNSHP45 (2). Coding regions are represented in the inner ring; the mcr-1–containing contig is represented in the outer ring. The mcr-1 gene is indicated in a black segment in the inner ring.
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1These authors contributed equally to this article.