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Complete nucleotide sequence and comparative analysis of pPR9, a 41.7-kilobase conjugative staphylococcal multiresistance plasmid conferring high-level mupirocin resistance.

[Cloning and identification of telomere and internal origin of the endophytic Streptomyces linear plasmid pYY8L from Allium fistulosum]

[Construction of conjugal transfer system of Streptomyces venezuelae var. Qinlingensis and the expression of vitreoscilla hemoglobin].

Conjugal transferring of resistance gene ptr for improvement of pristinamycin-producing Streptomyces pristinaespiralis.

Analysis of the mobilization functions of the vancomycin resistance transposon Tn1549, a member of a new family of conjugative elements.

High heterogeneity within methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 isolates, defined by Cfr9I macrorestriction-pulsed-field gel electrophoresis profiles and spa and SCCmec types.

Adaptation of the highly productive T7 expression system to Streptomyces lividans.

Further evidence of plasmid-encoded bla-(CTX-M-15) and bla-(TEM-1) genes in Lebanese isolates of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium that produce extended-spectrum beta-lactamase.

Transfer of plasmid-mediated CTX-M-9 from Salmonella enterica serotype Virchow to Enterobacteriaceae in human flora-associated rats treated with cefixime.

Dispersal of carbapenemase blaVIM-1 gene associated with different Tn402 variants, mercury transposons, and conjugative plasmids in Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Molecular epidemiology of metallo-beta-lactamase-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from Norway and Sweden shows import of international clones and local clonal expansion.

High prevalence of plasmid-mediated 16S rRNA methylase gene rmtB among Escherichia coli clinical isolates from a Chinese teaching hospital.

Conjugative transfer of insecticidal plasmid pHT73 from Bacillus thuringiensis to B. anthracis and compatibility of this plasmid with pXO1 and pXO2.

Fitness costs and stability of a high-level ciprofloxacin resistance phenotype in Salmonella enterica serotype enteritidis: reduced infectivity associated with decreased expression of Salmonella pathogenicity island 1 genes.

[Characterization of the transfer-related tra region of the conjugative plasmid p19 from a Bacillus subtilis soil strain].

Linear plasmid SLP2 is maintained by partitioning, intrahyphal spread, and conjugal transfer in Streptomyces.

Behavior of various hosts of the IncP-7 carbazole-degradative plasmid pCAR1 in artificial microcosms.

Genomic analysis of a novel integrative conjugative element in Vibrio cholerae

Conjugative transposition of Tn916 and detection of Tn916-Like transposon in Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae.

The contribution of small cryptic plasmids to the antibiotic resistance of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli E2348/69.