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Role of Cj1211 in natural transformation and transfer of antibiotic resistance determinants in Campylobacter jejuni.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Aug 2008
Jeon Byeonghwa, Muraoka Wayne, Sahin Orhan, Zhang Qijing
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Campylobacter jejuni, an important food-borne human pathogen, is increasingly resistant to antimicrobials. Natural transformation is considered to be a main mechanism for mediating the transfer of genetic materials encoding antibiotic resistance determinants in C. jejuni, but direct evidence for this notion is still lacking. In this study, we determined the role of Cj1211 in natural transformation and in the...
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