The Detection and Sequencing of a Broad-Host-Range Conjugative IncP-1β Plasmid in an Epidemic Strain of Mycobacterium abscessus subsp. bolletii

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Leão, Sylvia Cardoso ^a   Matsumoto, Cristianne Kayoko ^a   Carneiro, Adriana ^b   Ramos, Rommel Thiago ^b   Nogueira, Christiane Lourenço ^a   Junior, James Daltro Lima ^a   Lima, Karla Valéria ^c   Lopes, Maria Luiza ^c   Schneider, Horacio ^b   Azevedo, Vasco Ariston ^d   da Costa da Silva, Artur ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO EVANDRO CHAGAS   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC STABILITY; HOST RANGE; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM ABSCESSUS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

EID: 84875679127     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060746     Document Type: Article

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