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The mosaic accessory gene structures of the SXT/R391-like integrative and conjugative elements derived from Vibrio spp. isolated from aquatic products and environment in the Yangtze River Estuary, China.
BMC microbiology - 30 Sept 2013
Song Yuze, Yu Pan, Li Bailin, Pan Yingjie, Zhang Xiaojun, Cong Jian, Zhao Yinying, Wang Hua, Chen Lanming
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BACKGROUND: The emergence, resurgence and spread of human food-borne pathogenic Vibrios are one of the major contributors to disease burden and mortality particularly in developing countries with disputable sanitary conditions. Previous research on pathogenic Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio parahaemolitycus derived from clinical samples has proposed links between acquisition of virulence and multiple drug resistance...
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