Open AccessStaphylococcus aureus plasmids without mobilization genes are mobilized by a novel conjugative plasmid from community isolates
Author(s) -
Frances O’Brien,
Joshua P. Ramsay,
Stefan Monecke,
Geoffrey W. Coombs,
Owen Robinson,
Z. Htet,
F. A. M. Alshaikh,
W.B. Grubb
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124
H-Index - 194
eISSN - 1460-2091
pISSN - 0305-7453
DOI - 10.1093/jac/dku454
Subject(s) - plasmid , staphylococcus aureus , microbiology and biotechnology , mobilization , biology , gene , staphylococcus , bacteria , genetics , history , archaeology
To describe a family of conjugative plasmids isolated from colonizing community Staphylococcus aureus and determine their ability to mobilize unrelated antimicrobial resistance/virulence plasmids, not encoding mobilization functions.
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