Proactive Efforts by U.S. Federal Agencies Enable Early Detection of New Antibiotic Resistance / Gli sforzi delle Agenzie Federali USA per la diagnosi precoce della nuova resistenza agli antibiotici. Segnalato dal Dott. G iuseppe Cotellessa / Reported by Dr. Joseph Cotellessa In recent weeks, three agencies have made some important discoveries regarding antibiotic resistance in the United States. Earlier this week, the Department of Defense notified stakeholders that its Multidrug-resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network (MRSN) at the Walter Reed Institute of Research had identified the first colistin-resistant mcr-1 E. coli in a person in the United States. A USDA and HHS search for colistin-resistant bacteria in food animals, retail meats and people also has found colistin-resistant E. coli in a single sample from a pig intestine. These discoveries are of concern because colistin is used as a last-resort drug to treat patients with mult
