Draft Genome Sequences of Multidrug-Resistant and mcr-1.1-Harboring Escherichia coli Isolated from Drinking and Well Waters Used in Syrian Refugee Camps

Nivin A Nasser; Abdallah Alhaj Sulaiman; David Mann; Shaoting Li; Xiangyu Deng; Issmat I Kassem

doi:10.1128/MRA.01252-20

Draft Genome Sequences of Multidrug-Resistant and mcr-1.1-Harboring Escherichia coli Isolated from Drinking and Well Waters Used in Syrian Refugee Camps

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Jan 14;10(2):e01252-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01252-20.

Authors

Nivin A Nasser¹, Abdallah Alhaj Sulaiman², David Mann¹, Shaoting Li¹, Xiangyu Deng¹, Issmat I Kassem^{3

2}

Affiliations

¹ Center for Food Safety, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Georgia, Griffin, Georgia, USA.
² Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut (AUB), Beirut, Lebanon.
³ Center for Food Safety, Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Georgia, Griffin, Georgia, USA issmat.kassem@uga.edu.

Abstract

Resistance to colistin, a last-resort antibiotic, threatens the treatment of complicated infections, especially in susceptible populations such as Syrian refugees who live in makeshift camps. Two multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli strains with the plasmid-borne colistin resistance gene (mcr-1.1) were isolated from the waters used by refugees and sequenced to analyze antibiotic resistance determinants.