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Published in final edited form as: Crit Rev Microbiol. 2019 May 23;45(2):131–161. doi: 10.1080/1040841X.2018.1492902

Table 1.

Characterization of mcr-harboring bacteria.

Category Country Year Species Source No. of isolate Reference
Human Algeria 2011 E. coli Urine 1 Berrazeg et al. 2016
E. coli Sperm culture 1 Yanat et al. 2016
2013 E. coli Rectum 7 Leangapichart et al. 2016
K. pneumoniae Rectum 1 Leangapichart et al. 2016
2014 E. coli Rectum 1 Leangapichart et al. 2016
Argentina 2012 E. coli Blood (n=1 mcr-1.5)
Urine (n=1)
2 Rapoport et al. 2016; Tijet et al. 2017
2013 E. coli Abdominal (n=1 mcr-1.5)
Blood (n=1)
2 Rapoport et al. 2016; Tijet et al. 2017
2015 E. coli Urine (n=2 mcr-1.5)
Blood (n=1)
Bone (n=1)
4 Rapoport et al. 2016; Tijet et al. 2017
2016 E. coli Abscess 1 Rapoport et al. 2016
Australia 2011 E. coli Urine 1 Ellem et al. 2017
2013 E. coli Urine 1 Ellem et al. 2017
Austria 2016 E. coli Fecal sample 1 Hartl et al. 2017
Bahrain 2015 E. coli Wound (n=1)
Urine (n=1)
2 Sonnevend et al. 2016
2015 E. coli Groin and peri-rectal 4 Snesrud et al. 2017
Belgium 2014 – 2015 E. coli NA 1 Castanheira et al. 2016
2015 E. coli Pus 1 Huang TD et al. 2017
Brazil 2014 – 2015 E. coli NA 1 Castanheira et al. 2016
2015 E. coli Rectum (n=2)
Blood (n=1)
3 Conceição-Neto et al. 2017
2016 K. pneumoniae Urine 1 Aires et al. 2017
2016 E. coli Wound 1 Fernandes, McCulloch, et al. 2016
Cambodia 2012 E. coli Fecal sample 1 Stoesser et al. 2016
Canada 2010 E. coli Blood 2 Walkty et al. 2016
2011 E. coli Gastrostomy tube site, rectum 1 Mulvey et al. 2016
2015 – 2016 E. coli Urine 1 Payne et al. 2016
China 2011 and earlier NA Fecal sample (Human microbiome) 27 Hu Y et al. 2016; Ruppé et al. 2016
2011 E. coli Abdominal fluid 1 Wang X et al. 2017
K. pneumoniae Wound 1 Wang X et al. 2017
2012 E. coli Blood (n=8)
Urine (n=1)
Rectum (n=25)
34 Lima Barbieri et al. 2017; Quan et al. 2017; Wang X et al. 2017; Wang Y et al. 2017
K. pneumoniae Blood 3 Wang X et al. 2017
S. enterica Enteritidis NA 2 Cui et al. 2017
S. enterica Typhimurium NA 1 Cui et al. 2017
2013 E. coli Blood (n=11)
Drainage fluid (n=1)
Abdominal fluid (n=4)
Sputum (n=1)
Urine (n=1)
18 Quan et al. 2017; Wang X et al. 2017; Wang Y et al. 2017
S. enterica NA 1 Cui et al. 2017
S. enterica Typhimurium NA 5 Cui et al. 2017
2014 E. coli Urine (n=5)
Sputum (n=3)
Drainage fluid (n=9)
Bile (n=2)
Ascites (n=3)
Wound (n=1)
Blood (n=22)
Pus (n=1)
46 Du et al. 2016; Liu YY et al. 2016; He QW et al. 2017; Quan et al. 2017; Wang X et al. 2017; Wang Y et al. 2017
K. pneumoniae Urine (n=1)
Sputum (n=2)
Blood (n=1)
4 Liu YY et al. 2016; Quan et al. 2017
Enterobacter aerogenes Vaginal secretion 1 Zeng et al. 2016
Enterobacter cloacae Urine 1 Zeng et al. 2016
S. enterica Rectum (n=1mcr-1.6)
NA (n=3)
4 Cui et al. 2017; Lu et al. 2017
2014 – 2015 E. coli NA 2 Zhang R et al. 2017
2015 E. coli Abscess (n=2)
Fecal sample (n=63)
Blood (n=10)
Urine (n=20)
Ascites (n=1)
Bile (n=8)
Catheter (n=2)
Drainage fluid (n=7)
Pus (n=1)
Respiratory tract (n=1)
Secretion (n=8)
Sputum (n=13)
Wound (n=1)
137 Du et al. 2016; Gu et al. 2016; Ye et al. 2016; Yu H et al. 2016; Zhang R et al. 2016; Zhang XF et al. 2016; He QW et al. 2017; Tian et al. 2017; Wang Y et al. 2017
K. pneumoniae Fecal sample (n=2)
Surgical wound (n=1)
Peritoneal fluid (n=1)
Sputum (n=1)
5 Du et al. 2016; Gu et al. 2016; Tian et al. 2017; Wang Y et al. 2017
S. enterica Typhimurium NA 16 Cui et al. 2017
2016 E. coli Fecal sample 34 Zhong et al. 2016; Hu et al. 2017; Zheng et al. 2017
K. pneumoniae Sputum 4 Tian et al. 2017
Citrobacter freundii Fecal sample 1 Hu et al. 2017
2017 E. coli mcr-3.5 Abdominal abscess 1 Liu L et al. 2017
NA E. coli Blood 2 Zheng et al. 2016
K. pneumoniae NA 13 Wang Y et al. 2017
Enterobacter cloacae NA 1 Wang Y et al. 2017
Enterobacter aerogenes NA 1 Wang Y et al. 2017
Colombia 2013 E. coli Leg secretion (n=1)
Blood (n=1)
2 Saavedra et al. 2017
2015 S. enterica Typhimurium Fecal sample (n=1)
Urine (n=1)
2 Saavedra et al. 2017
2016 E. coli Urine (n=2)
Vaginal secretion (n=1)
Abdominal abscess (n=1)
Toe tissue (n=1)
NA (n=1)
6 Saavedra et al. 2017
K. pneumoniae Blood 1 Saavedra et al. 2017
S. enterica Typhimurium Fecal sample 1 Saavedra et al. 2017
Denmark 2009 S. enterica Typhimurium mcr-3 NA 1 Litrup et al. 2017
2010 S. enterica O:4,5,12;H:i:- mcr-3 NA 1 Litrup et al. 2017
2011 S. enterica O:4,5,12;H:i:- mcr-3 NA 2 Litrup et al. 2017
2012 S. enterica Typhimurium mcr-3 NA 2 Litrup et al. 2017
S. enterica O:4,5,12;H:i:- mcr-3 NA 1 Litrup et al. 2017
2014 S. enterica Typhimurium NA 2 Torpdahl et al. 2017
E. coli mcr-3 Blood 1 Roer et al. 2017
2015 E. coli Blood 1 Hasman et al. 2015
S. enterica Typhimurium NA 2 Torpdahl et al. 2017
S. enterica O:4,5,12;H:i:- mcr-3 NA 1 Litrup et al. 2017
2016 S. enterica O:4,5,12;H:i:- mcr-3 NA 1 Litrup et al. 2017
2017 S. enterica O:4,5,12;H:i:- mcr-3 NA 1 Litrup et al. 2017
Ecuador 2016 E. coli Peritoneal fluid 1 Ortega-Paredes et al. 2016
Egypt 2015 E. coli Sputum 1 Elnahriry et al. 2016
France 2012 – 2013 K. pneumoniae Fecal sample 2 Rolain et al. 2016
2016 E. coli Fecal sample 1 Beyrouthy et al. 2017
Germany 2014 E. coli Wound 1 Falgenhauer, Waezsada, Yao, et al. 2016
2014 – 2015 E. coli NA 5 Castanheira et al. 2016
2016 E. coli Urine 1 Fritzenwanker et al. 2016
Hungary 2011 E. coli Blood 1 Juhász et al. 2017
Hong Kong 2014 – 2015 E. coli NA 1 Castanheira et al. 2016
2015 – 2016 E. coli Blood (n=2)
Fecal sample (n=1)
Urine (n=1)
4 Wong et al. 2016
2015 – 2016 Enterobacter cloacae Fecal sample 1 Wong et al. 2016
Italy 2012 – 2015 S. enterica NA 10 Carnevali et al. 2016
2013 E. coli Urine 1 Cannatelli et al. 2016
2014 E. coli Urine, surgical wound 3 Cannatelli et al. 2016
K. pneumoniae mcr-1.2 Rectum 1 Di Pilato et al. 2016
2015 E. coli Urine (n=4)
Intestinal colonization (n=3)
7 Cannatelli et al. 2016; Giufrè et al. 2016
2014 – 2015 E. coli NA 4 Castanheira et al. 2016
2016 E. coli Blood 2 Corbella et al. 2017
S. enterica Typhimurium mcr-4.2 Fecal sample 2 Carretto et al. 2018
2017 E. coli Blood 1 Corbella et al. 2017
Japan 2017 E. coli Fecal sample 1 Tada, Uechi, et al. 2017
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 2012 E. coli Blood 1 Sonnevend et al. 2016
Laos 2012 E. coli Fecal sample 6 Olaitan et al. 2016
2012 K. pneumoniae Fecal sample 4 Rolain et al. 2016
Malaysia 2013 E. coli Urine 1 Yu, Ang, Chin, et al. 2016
2014 – 2015 E. coli NA 1 Castanheira et al. 2016
Morocco 2014 E. coli Rectum 2 Leangapichart et al. 2016
New Caledonia 2014 E. coli Ascites (n=1)
Gastric fluid (n=1)
2 Robin et al. 2016
Norway 2014 E. coli NA 1 Solheim et al. 2016
Oman 2016 E. coli Blood 1 Mohsin et al. 2017
Pakistan 2016 E. coli Wound 1 Mohsin et al. 2016
Poland 2015 E. coli Urine 1 Izdebski et al. 2016
Portugal 2011 – 2012 S. enterica 1,4,[5],12:i:- Blood, fecal sample 4 Campos et al. 2016
2016 E. coli Urine 1 Tacão et al. 2017
Russia 2014 – 2015 E. coli NA 1 Castanheira et al. 2016
Singapore 2016 E. coli Urine 2 Teo et al. 2016
2016 K. pneumoniae Urine 1 Teo et al. 2016
South Africa 2014 – 2016 E. coli Blood (n=1)
Wound (n=1)
Pus (n=1)
Urine (n=6)
9 Coetzee et al. 2016; Poirel, Kieffer, Brink, et al. 2016
2016 E. coli Urine (n=9)
Superficial abdominal swab (n=1)
10 Newton-Foot et al. 2017
2016 K. pneumoniae Sputum (n=2)
Urine (n=2)
4 Newton-Foot et al. 2017
2016 K. oxytoca Superficial abdominal swab 1 Newton-Foot et al. 2017
South Korea 2014 – 2015 E. coli Blood 1 Kim et al. 2017
Spain 2012 E. coli Blood 1 Prim et al. 2016
2013 E. coli Sputum (n=3)
Blood (n=4)
Urine (n=1)
8 Prim et al. 2016
2014 E. coli Urine (n=2)
Surgical wound (n=1)
3 Prim et al. 2016
2015 E. coli Urine 3 Prim et al. 2016
2014 – 2015 E. coli NA 3 Castanheira et al. 2016
2016 E. coli Peritoneal fluid (n=1)
Sputum (n=1)
2 Ortiz de la Tabla et al. 2016; Sánchez-Benito et al. 2017
2012 – 2015 E. coli Blood (n=5), urine (n=6), sputum (n=3), surgical wound secretion (n=1) 15 Prim et al. 2017
Sweden 2013 E. coli Fecal sample 1 Vading et al. 2016
Switzerland 2015 E. coli Urine (n=1)
Fecal sample (n=3, 1mcr-1.2)
Blood (n=2)
7 Bernasconi et al. 2016; Nordmann, Lienhard, et al. 2016; Poirel, Kieffer, Liassine, et al. 2016; Donà, Bernasconi, Kasraian, et al. 2017
2016 E. coli Urine (n=1)
Fecal sample (n=2)
3 Zurfluh et al. 2017
Taiwan 2010 E. coli Sputum 1 Kuo et al. 2016
2012 E. coli Urine 2 Kuo et al. 2016
2014 E. coli Ascites (n=1)
Abscess (n=2)
Blood (n=3)
Urine (n=5)
11 Kuo et al. 2016
S. enterica Typhimurium NA 5 Chiou et al. 2017
2015 S. enterica Typhimurium NA 3 Chiou et al. 2017
S. enterica Newport NA 1 Chiou et al. 2017
S. enterica Albany NA 1 Chiou et al. 2017
NA E. coli Urine 1 Lai et al. 2017
Thailand 2012 E. coli Fecal sample 2 Olaitan et al. 2016
2014 – 2015 E. coli Urine 1 Runcharoen et al. 2017
2016 E. coli Urine 1 Paveenkittiporn et al. 2016
The Netherlands 2012 – 2013 E. coli Fecal sample 6 Arcilla et al. 2016
2014 E. coli Fecal sample 1 Nijhuis et al. 2016
2015 E. coli Fecal sample 2 Nijhuis et al. 2016
2014 – 2015 E. coli Fecal sample 1 Terveer et al. 2017
The United States 2014 E. coli Urine 1 Mediavilla et al. 2016
2015 E. coli Urine 1 Castanheira et al. 2016
2015 E. coli Blood 1 Macesic et al. 2017
2016 E. coli Urine 1 McGann et al. 2016
2016 E. coli Fecal sample 1 Vasquez et al. 2016
The United Kingdom 2012 S. enterica Typhimurium Fecal sample 1 Doumith et al. 2016
2013 E. coli Fecal sample (n=1)
Blood (n=1)
2 Doumith et al. 2016
2014 E. coli Blood 1 Doumith et al. 2016
2014 S. enterica Typhimurium Fecal sample 2 Doumith et al. 2016
2014 S. enterica Virchow Fecal sample 1 Doumith et al. 2016
2015 S. enterica Typhimurium Fecal sample 5 Doumith et al. 2016
2015 S. enterica Paratyphi Fecal sample 1 Doumith et al. 2016
United Arab Emirates 2013 E. coli Blood 1 Sonnevend et al. 2016
Vietnam 2008 Shigella sonnei Fecal sample 1 Thanh et al. 2016
2012 – 2013 E. coli Rectum 3 Trung et al. 2017
2014 E. coli Urine (n=1)
Pus (n=1)
2 Tada, Nhung, et al. 2017
Livestock Algeria 2015 E. coli Chicken 1 Olaitan et al. 2016
Brazil 2012 E. coli Pig 2 Fernandes, Moura, et al. 2016
2013 E. coli Chicken 14 Fernandes, Moura, et al. 2016
2015 E. coli Chicken 10 Lentz et al. 2016
Belgium 2011 – 2012 E. coli Calf (n=6)
Pig (n=7)
Calf (n=1mcr-2)
Pig (n=2mcr-2)
16 Malhotra-Kumar, Xavier, Das, Lammens, Butaye, et al. 2016; Xavier et al. 2016
2013 E. coli Cattle (n=1)
Pig (n=1)
2 El Garch et al. 2016
2015 – 2016 E. coli mcr-4 Pig 2 Carattoli et al. 2017
China 1980s E. coli Chicken 3 Shen et al. 2016
2004 – 2006 E. coli Chicken 8 Shen et al. 2016
2007 S. enterica Typhimurium Chicken 1 Li XP et al. 2016
2008 S. enterica Typhimurium Pig 2 Li XP et al. 2016
2009 E. coli Chicken 6 Shen et al. 2016
S. enterica Typhimurium Pig 1 Li XP et al. 2016
2010 E. coli Chicken 13 Shen et al. 2016; Yang YQ et al. 2017
S. enterica Typhimurium Duck 1 Li XP et al. 2016
2011 E. coli Chicken (n=30)
Pig (n=3)
33 Li Z et al. 2016; Shen et al. 2016; Yang YQ et al. 2017
2012 E. coli Pig (n=33)
Chicken (n= 42)
75 Li Z et al. 2016; Liu YY et al. 2016; Shen et al. 2016; Lima Barbieri et al. 2017; Yang YQ et al. 2017
2013 E. coli Pig (n=69)
Chicken (n=39) Chicken (n=1mcr-1.3)
109 Li Z et al. 2016; Liu YY et al. 2016; Shen et al. 2016; Lima Barbieri et al. 2017; Wang X et al. 2017; Yang YQ et al. 2017
2014 E. coli Pig (n=67)
Chicken (n=26)
93 Liu YY et al. 2016; Shen et al. 2016; Lima Barbieri et al. 2017; Yang YQ et al. 2017
Citrobacter freundii Pig 1 Li XP et al. 2017
K. pneumoniae mcr-7 Chicken 1 Yang et al. 2018
2010 – 2015 K. pneumoniae Chicken (n=7) Chicken (n=2mcr-7) 9 Yang et al. 2018
2014 – 2015 E.coli Pig 35 Li R et al. 2017
S. enterica Chicken 4 Yang YQ et al. 2016
2015 E. coli Duck (n=2)
Chicken (n=66)
Cattle (n=1)
Pig (n=1mcr-3)
70 Liu BT et al. 2016; Yang RS et al. 2016; He T et al. 2017; Yang YQ et al. 2017; Yi et al. 2017; Yin et al. 2017
Aeromonas veronii mcr-3.3 Chicken 1 Ling et al. 2017
Cronobacter sakazakii Chicken (n=2) 2 Liu BT et al. 2016
2015 – 2016 S. enterica Chicken (n=6)
Pig (n=6)
12 Ma et al. 2017
2017 Aeromonas caviae mcr-3.10 Duck 1 Wang et al. 2018
E. coli mcr-3.10 Duck 1 Wang et al. 2018
Proteus mirabilis mcr-3.10 Duck 1 Wang et al. 2018
Egypt 2010 E. coli Chicken 4 Lima Barbieri et al. 2017
2014 E. coli Cattle 1 Khalifa et al. 2016
Estonia 2013 E. coli Pig 3 Brauer et al. 2016
France 2005 – 2014 E. coli Calf 106 Haenni et al. 2016
2004 E. coli Cattle 1 El Garch et al. 2016
2005 E. coli Cattle 1 El Garch et al. 2016
2006 E. coli Pig 2 El Garch et al. 2016
2007 E. coli Cattle (n=2)
Pig (n=1)
3 Brennan et al. 2016; El Garch et al. 2016
2008 E. coli Cattle (n=1)
Pig (n=1)
2 El Garch et al. 2016
2009 E. coli Pig 3 El Garch et al. 2016
2010 E. coli Cattle (n=4)
Pig (n=5)
9 El Garch et al. 2016
2011 E. coli Cattle (n=1)
Pig (n=2)
3 El Garch et al. 2016; Perrin-Guyomard et al. 2016
2012 E. coli Pig 3 El Garch et al. 2016
2013 E. coli Chicken (n=3)
Pig (n=4)
7 El Garch et al. 2016; Perrin-Guyomard et al. 2016
S. enterica 1,4,[5],12:i:- Chicken 1 Webb et al. 2016
2014 E. coli Chicken (n=4)
Turkey (n=14)
Pig (n=1)
19 El Garch et al. 2016; Perrin-Guyomard et al. 2016
Germany 2008 S. enterica Paratyphi B Chicken 1 Borowiak, Hammerl, et al. 2017
2010 – 2011 E. coli Pig 3 Falgenhauer, Waezsada, Yao, et al. 2016
S. enterica Pig 1 El Garch et al. 2016
2010 E. coli Chicken (n=8)
Turkey (n=30)
Calf (n=15)
Pig (n=1)
54 El Garch et al. 2016; Irrgang et al. 2016
2011 E. coli Laying hen (n=2)
Chicken (n=17)
Turkey (n=33)
Pig (n=13)
65 Irrgang et al. 2016
2011 – 2012 E. coli Pig farm (boot swab and fecal sample) 43 Roschanski et al. 2017
2012 Aeromonas media mcr-3.7 Turkey 1 Eichhorn et al. 2018
E. coli Turkey (n=63)
Calf (n=5)
68 Irrgang et al. 2016
S. enterica Paratyphi B mcr-5 Poultry 8 Borowiak, Fischer, et al. 2017
2013 E. coli Chicken 52 Irrgang et al. 2016
2014 E. coli Laying hens(n=1)
Chicken (n=22)
Turkey (n=37)
60 Irrgang et al. 2016
2015 E. coli Calf (n=1)
Pig (n=11)
12 Irrgang et al. 2016
2016 E. coli Pig 11 Schirmeier et al. 2017
Italy 2004 E. coli Cattle 2 El Garch et al. 2016
2006 E. coli Cattle 1 El Garch et al. 2016
2007 E. coli Pig 3 El Garch et al. 2016
2008 E. coli Pig 1 El Garch et al. 2016
2010 – 2011 S. enterica Pig 2 El Garch et al. 2016
2011 E. coli Pig 1 El Garch et al. 2016
2012 E. coli Pig 1 El Garch et al. 2016
2013 S. enterica Typhimurium mcr-4 Pig 1 Carattoli et al. 2017
2014 E. coli Pig 1 El Garch et al. 2016
2012 – 2015 S. enterica Poultry (n=2)
Pig (n=9)
11 Carnevali et al. 2016
2015 – 2016 E. coli Pig 37 Curcio et al. 2017
2016 E. coli Pig 1 Pulss et al. 2017
Japan 2007 – 2014 E. coli Pig 90 Kusumoto et al. 2016
2008 E. coli Pig 2 Kawanishi et al. 2016; Suzuki et al. 2016
2010 E. coli Pig 5 Kawanishi et al. 2016; Suzuki et al. 2016
2011 E. coli Cattle 1 Kawanishi et al. 2016
2012 E. coli Pig (n=5)
Cattle (n=2)
Chicken (n=2)
9 Kawanishi et al. 2016
2013 E. coli Pig (n=3)
Cattle (n=1)
Chicken (n=2)
6 Kawanishi et al. 2016
S. enterica Typhimurium Pig 1 Suzuki et al. 2016
2012 – 2013 E. coli Cattle 4 Suzuki et al. 2016
2014 E. coli Pig (n=7)
Cattle (n=1)
Chicken (n=10)
18 Kawanishi et al. 2016
Laos 2012 E. coli Pig 3 Olaitan et al. 2016
Malaysia 2013 E. coli Chicken (n=5)
Pig (n=1)
6 Petrillo et al. 2016; Yu, Ang, Chin, et al. 2016
South Africa 2015 E. coli Chicken 19 Perreten et al. 2016
South Korea 2013 E. coli Chicken 1 Lim et al. 2016
2014 E. coli Chicken 6 Lim et al. 2016
2015 E. coli Chicken (n=3)
Pig (n=1)
4 Lim et al. 2016
Spain 2009 S. enterica Typhimurium Pig 1 Quesada et al. 2016
M. pluranimalium mcr-2.2 Pig 1 AbuOun et al. 2017
2010 S. enterica Typhimurium Pig 1 Quesada et al. 2016
S. enterica Rissen Pig 1 Quesada et al. 2016
2011 E. coli Pig 1 Quesada et al. 2016
S. enterica Typhimurium Pig 1 Quesada et al. 2016
2013 E. coli Pig 1 Quesada et al. 2016
2014 E. coli Turkey 3 Quesada et al. 2016
2015 E. coli Cattle (n=4, 1mcr-3.2) 5 Hernández et al. 2017
2015 – 2016 E. coli mcr-4 Pig 9 Carattoli et al. 2017
Taiwan 2012 S. enterica Typhimurium Pig 1 Chiou et al. 2017
2013 S. enterica Typhimurium Pig (n=3)
Chicken (n=2)
5 Chiou et al. 2017
S. enterica Anatum Pig 3 Chiou et al. 2017
The Netherlands 2010 – 2011 E. coli Calf (n=15)
Chicken (n=2)
Turkey (n=1)
18 Veldman et al. 2016
2012 – 2013 E. coli Chicken 8 Veldman et al. 2016
The United Kingdom 2014 M. porci mcr-1.10 Pig 1 AbuOun et al. 2017
2015 E. coli Pig 4 Anjum et al. 2016; Duggett et al. 2016
S. enterica Typhimurium Pig 1 Anjum et al. 2016
M. pluranimalium mcr-6 Pig 1 AbuOun et al. 2017
The United States 2016 E. coli Pig 3 Meinersmann, Ladely, Bono, et al. 2016; Meinersmann, Ladely, Plumblee, et al. 2016
Tunisia 2015 E. coli Chicken 37 Grami et al. 2016
Vietnam 2012 – 2013 E. coli Chicken 19 Trung et al. 2017
2013 – 2014 E. coli Chicken (n=20)
Pig (n=17)
37 Nguyen et al. 2016
2014 – 2015 E. coli Pig 9 Malhotra-Kumar, Xavier, Das, Lammens, Hoang, et al. 2016
Meat and food product Brazil 2016 E. coli Chicken meat 8 Monte et al. 2017
Canada 2010 E. coli Beef (Unknown origin) 2 Mulvey et al. 2016
China 2011 E. coli Pork (n=3)
Chicken meat(n=10)
13 Liu YY et al. 2016
2013 E. coli Pork (n=11)
Chicken meat(n=4)
15 Liu YY et al. 2016
2014 E. coli Pork (n=29)
Chicken meat (n=21)
50 Liu YY et al. 2016
2015 – 2016 E. coli Retail food sample 109 Liu X et al. 2017
S. enterica Chicken meat (n=5)
Pork (n=5)
10 Ma et al. 2017
2015 E. coli Vegetable 3 Luo et al. 2017
Raoultella ornithinolytica Vegetable 2 Luo et al. 2017
2016 E. coli Vegetable 4 Luo et al. 2017
Denmark 2012 E. coli Chicken meat(imported from Europe) 3 Hasman et al. 2015
2013 E. coli Chicken meat (imported from Europe) 1 Hasman et al. 2015
2014 E. coli Chicken meat(imported from Europe) 1 Hasman et al. 2015
France 2012 S. enterica Paratyphi B Chicken breast (n=1)
Ready-to-cook guinea fowl pie (n=1)
2 Webb et al. 2016
2013 S. enterica Derby Chipolata sausage 1 Webb et al. 2016
Italy 2013 – 2015 S. enterica Pork 4 Carnevali et al. 2016
Japan 2015 E. coli Chicken meat 1 Ohsaki et al. 2017
Taiwan 2012 E. coli Beef 1 Kuo et al. 2016
2013 E. coli Chicken meat 6 Kuo et al. 2016
2015 E. coli Chicken meat (n=9)
Pork (n=2)
11 Kuo et al. 2016
The Netherlands 2009 E. coli Chicken meat(Unknown origin) 1 Kluytmans-van den bergh et al. 2016
2013 S. enterica Anatum Turkey meat (imported) 1 Veldman et al. 2016
2014 E. coli Chicken meat(imported from Europe) 2 Kluytmans-van den bergh et al. 2016
2015 S. enterica Schwarzengrund Turkey meat (imported) 1 Veldman et al. 2016
E. coli Chicken meat 33 Schrauwen et al. 2017
K. pneumoniae Chicken meat 2 Schrauwen et al. 2017
2010 – 2015 S. enterica Java Chicken meat (local) 11 Veldman et al. 2016
The United Kingdom 2014 S. enterica Paratyphi B Poultry meat (imported from Europe) 2 Doumith et al. 2016
Germany 2010 E. coli Turkey meat 17 Irrgang et al. 2016
2011 E. coli Chicken meat 14 Irrgang et al. 2016
S. enterica Paratyphi B mcr-5 Chicken meat 1 Borowiak, Fischer, et al. 2017
2012 E. coli Chicken breast (n=1)
Turkey hen Schnitzel (n=1)
Turkey meat (n=30)
Beef (n=2)
34 Falgenhauer, Waezsada, Gwozdzinski, et al. 2016; Irrgang et al. 2016
S. enterica Paratyphi B mcr-5 Chicken meat 1 Borowiak, Fischer, et al. 2017
2013 E. coli Turkey meat (n=1)
Chicken meat (n=10)
11 Falgenhauer, Waezsada, Gwozdzinski, et al. 2016; Irrgang et al. 2016
S. enterica Paratyphi B mcr-5 Chicken meat 1 Borowiak, Fischer, et al. 2017
2014 E. coli Chicken meat (n=1)
Turkey meat (n=10)
11 Irrgang et al. 2016
Portugal 2011 S. enterica Typhimurium Food product (originated from swine and poultry) 3 Figueiredo et al. 2016; Tse and Yuen 2016
2012 S. enterica Typhimurium Food product (originated from cattle) 1 Figueiredo et al. 2016
2014 – 2015 S. enterica 1,4,[5],12:i:- Pork meat/carcass 5 Campos et al. 2016
S. enterica Rissen Pork carcass 2 Campos et al. 2016
Switzerland 2014 E. coli Vegetable (imported from Thailand and Vietnam) 2 Zurfuh et al. 2016
Chicken meat (imported from Germany) 4 Donà, Bernasconi, Pires, et al. 2017
2015 E. coli Chicken meat (imported from Germany and Italy) 2 Zogg et al. 2016
2016 E. coli Chicken meat (imported from Germany and Italy)
Turkey meat (imported from Germany and Italy)
14 Zurfluh, Buess, et al. 2016; Donà, Bernasconi, Pires, et al. 2017
Other animal Argentina 2012 E. coli Kelp gulls 5 Liakopoulos et al. 2016
Brazil 2013 E. coli Magellanic
penguins
1 Sellera et al. 2016
China 2016 E. coli Dog (n=4)
Cat (n=2)
6 Zhang XF et al. 2016
Germany 2005 Aeromonas allosaccharophila mcr-3.6 Fish 1 Eichhorn et al. 2018
2006 Aeromonas hydrophila mcr-3.8, mcr-3.9 Fish 1 Eichhorn et al. 2018
2008 Aeromonas jandaei mcr-3.8 Fish 1 Eichhorn et al. 2018
Lithuania 2016 E. coli European herring gulls 1 Ruzauskas and Vaskeviciute 2016
Vietnam 2013 – 2014 E. coli Asian grass lizard 2 Unger et al. 2016
Environment Brazil 2016 E. coli Sea water 3 Fernandes et al. 2017
China 2015 Kluyvera ascorbata Hospital sewage 1 Zhao and Zong 2016
K. pneumoniae Hospital sewage 1 Zhao, Feng, et al. 2016
E. coli Well water 2 Sun et al. 2017
2016 E. coli River and lake water 16 Zhou et al. 2017
Citrobacter freundii Lake water 2 Zhou et al. 2017
K. oxytoca Lake water 2 Zhou et al. 2017
Citrobacter braakii Lake water 2 Zhou et al. 2017
Enterobacter cloacae River water 1 Zhou et al. 2017
Germany 2012 S. enterica Paratyphi B mcr-5 NA 2 Borowiak, Fischer, et al. 2017
Malaysia 2014 E. coli Pond water 1 Petrillo et al. 2016
Norway 2010 E. coli Sea water 2 Jørgensen et al. 2017
Spain 2013 E. coli Sewage water 29 Ovejero et al. 2017
K. pneumoniae Sewage water 1 Ovejero et al. 2017
Switzerland 2012 E. coli River water 1 Zurfuh et al. 2016
Thailand 2014 – 2015 E. coli Canal water 2 Runcharoen et al. 2017

NA: not available; Isolates carried mcr-1 unless stated otherwise in superscript.