Staphylococcus aureus plasmids without mobilization genes are mobilized by a novel conjugative plasmid from community isolates
Objectives: To describe a family of conjugative plasmids isolated from colonizing community Staphylococcus aureus and determine their ability to mobilize unrelated antimicrobial resistance/virulence plasmids, not encoding mobilization functions. Methods: Plasmid pWBG749 was labelled with Tn551 (pWBG...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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Oxford University Press
2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3992 |