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[The adhesive activity of Klebsiella pneumoniae controlled by plasmid 55 MD].
Zhurnal mikrobiologii, epidemiologii i immunobiologii - 1 Jan 2000
Bondarenko V M, Tseneva G Ia, Berezina L A, Wu G, Sudzhian E V
Abstract excerpt
In K. pneumoniae clinical strains a nonconjugative plasmid, denoted as pAdh-55 and responsible for their adhesive activity with respect to HEp-2 cells, was detected. The comparison of genetically related pairs of K. pneumoniae strains differing in the presence of pAdh-55 revealed that the loss of this plasmid by bacteria was accompanied by a decrease, and its acquisition by a considerable increase, in the number...
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