“…Likewise, mcr-1 has been identified in isolates from humans, animals, and the environment in an increasing number of countries [25] namely, Asia, Europe, North America, Africa, and the Middle East [26,27]. To date, mcr-1 has been observed on a wide variety of plasmid types, including IncI2, IncHI2, IncX4 [28], IncP, IncFI, IncFIB [29] and IncHI1, IncFII, IncX1-X2, IncX3 [30]. Moreover, retrospective studies led to establishing the presence of the mcr-1 gene in China as early as the 1980s and in Europe since 2005 [31,32].…”