Sequencing of IncX-plasmids suggests ubiquity of mobile forms of a biofilm-promoting gene cassette recruited from Klebsiella pneumoniae

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Burmølle, Mette ^a   Norman, Anders ^a   Sørensen, Søren J ^a   Hansen, Lars Hestbjerg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; RNA 16S;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOFILM; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CASSETTE; GENETIC TRAIT; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INCOMPATIBILITY X PLASMID; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; REPLICON; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; TRANSPOSON;

BIOFILMS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; PLASMIDS; REPLICON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84864185459     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041259     Document Type: Article

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