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Inc A/C plasmids are prevalent in multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica isolates.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Apr 2009
Lindsey Rebecca L, Fedorka-Cray Paula J, Frye Jonathan G, Meinersmann Richard J
Abstract excerpt
Bacterial plasmids are fragments of extrachromosomal double-stranded DNA that can contain a variety of genes that are beneficial to the host organism, like those responsible for antimicrobial resistance. The objective of this study was to characterize a collection of 437 Salmonella enterica isolates from different animal sources for their antimicrobial resistance phenotypes and plasmid replicon types and, in some...
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