The Master Activator of IncA/C Conjugative Plasmids Stimulates Genomic Islands and Multidrug Resistance Dissemination

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Carraro, Nicolas ^a   Matteau, Dominick ^a   Luo, Peng ^a,b   Rodrigue, Sébastien ^a   Burrus, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE TRANSFER; GENOMIC ISLAND; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; VIBRIO MIMICUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING;

DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; PLASMIDS; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

EID: 84908340387     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004714     Document Type: Article

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