Novel plasmids and resistance phenotypes in yersinia pestis: Unique plasmid inventory of strain java 9 mediates high levels of arsenic resistance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Eppinger, Mark ^a   Radnedge, Lyndsay ^b,d   Andersen, Gary ^b,e   Vietri, Nicholas ^c   Severson, Grant ^c   Mou, Sherry ^c   Ravel, Jacques ^a   Worsham, Patricia L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d MONOGRAM BIOSCIENCES   (United States)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; ARSENOUS ACID DERIVATIVE;

ARSENIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL RESISTANCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SYNTENY; TRANSPOSON; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PESTIS; ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; PATHOGENICITY; PLAGUE; RAT; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PRIMATES; RATTUS; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ANIMALS; ARSENIC; ARSENITES; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHENOTYPE; PLAGUE; PLASMIDS; RATS; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 84859119695     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032911     Document Type: Article

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