Draft genome sequences of multidrug-resistant and mcr-1.1-harboring escherichia coli isolated from drinking and well waters used in Syrian Refugee Camps

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. Copyright © 2021 Nasser et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.