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Background Efficacy of Colistin the last line agent against infections due to multidrug-resistant (MDR) gram-negative pathogens, has been challenged when Liu et al. reported a plasmid-mediated gene, mcr-1 , in 2015. Thereby this plasmid-borne mcr has been reported in bacterial isolates worldwide taken from humans, animals, farms, foods, and the environment. The present work invesitigate the mcr gene among clinical isolates of Acinetobacter Baumannii at our tertiary referral hospital of India. Methods The study was conducted at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India. MIC values for 100 consecutive non-duplicate MDR isolates of Acinetobacter were checked for Colistin. PCR amplification of mcr gene was performed followed by sequencing of the amplicons. Clinical features of patients infected with mcr positive isolates were unveiled. Clonal relatedness of these isolates was investigated by Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). The mcr-1 localization was checked by conjugation followed by PFGE southern hybridization. Results 20/100 (20%) isolates were colistin resistant with having MIC Values of more than 8≤ µg/mL. The 20 colistin resistances isolates were PCR positive for mcr-1 and had been assigned EMBL/GeneBank nucleotide accession numbers MH730099-MH730118. Oher antibiotic resistance gene like ESBL, NDM-1, VIM, and 16s rRNA methyl transferases like Arm A, rmtC, rmt F were also found in these isolates. Majority of these patients recovered from the infection (65%) after proper antibiotic therapy.The IS Apl1 transposable elements were not detected in these isolates. These isolates were found clonally unrelated when analyze by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. The conjugation attempt to transfer mcr-1 to recipient's E. coli J53 failed, Southern hybridization showed that mcr-1 was found located on chromosome in multiple copies. Conclusion This is the first case of mcr-1 in a human clinical isolate in Acinetobacter Baumnnii from India. These findings highlight the vertical transferability of colistin resistance by mcr-1 gene in Acinetobacter Baumnnii with the association of known some unknown insertion sequence located on chromosome. Strategies required to contain their spread and evolution of such genes. Disclosures All authors: No reported disclosures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]