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We aimed to evaluate colistin minimum inhibitory concentration and the presence of mcr (mcr-1 to mcr-9) genes in 236 Salmonella isolates previously collected from different animals and the environment between 2000 and 2020. Overall, 17.79% of isolates were resistant to colistin; no differences were observed in relation to years of isolation (2000\u20132005, 2009\u20132014, and 2015\u20132020), Salmonella enterica subspecies (enterica, salamae, diarizonae, and houtenae), origin of samples (domestic animals, wildlife, and environment), or animal category (birds, mammals, and reptiles); only recently isolated strains from houseflies showed the most resistance. Few isolates (5.93%) scored positive for mcr genes, in particular for mcr-1, mcr-2, mcr-4, mcr-6, and mcr-8; furthermore, only 2.54% of isolates were mcr-positive and colistin-resistant. Detected resistance to colistin was equally distributed among all examined Salmonella isolates and not always related to the presence of mcr genes.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/antibiotics11020272","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,21]],"date-time":"2022-02-21T08:14:46Z","timestamp":1645431286000},"page":"272","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":21,"title":["Low Level of Colistin Resistance and mcr Genes Presence in Salmonella spp.: Evaluation of Isolates Collected between 2000 and 2020 from Animals and Environment"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5292-0613","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Fabrizio","family":"Bertelloni","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Veterinary Science, University of Pisa, 56124 Pisa, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Giulia","family":"Cagnoli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Veterinary Science, University of Pisa, 56124 Pisa, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Barbara","family":"Turchi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Veterinary Science, University of Pisa, 56124 Pisa, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Valentina Virginia","family":"Ebani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Veterinary Science, University of Pisa, 56124 Pisa, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"557","DOI":"10.1128\/CMR.00064-16","article-title":"Polymyxins: Antibacterial activity, susceptibility testing, and resistance mechanisms encoded by plasmids or chromosomes","volume":"30","author":"Poirel","year":"2017","journal-title":"Clin. 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