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Major Families of Multiresistant Plasmids from Geographically and Epidemiologically Diverse Staphylococci
1 Dec 2011
Abstract excerpt
Staphylococci are increasingly aggressive human pathogens suggesting that active evolution is spreading novel virulence and resistance phenotypes. Large staphylococcal plasmids commonly carry antibiotic resistances and virulence loci, but relatively few have been completely sequenced. We determined the plasmid content of 280 staphylococci isolated in diverse geographical regions from the 1940s to the 2000s and...
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