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Drug resistance mechanism of the fish-pathogenic bacterium Lactococcus garvieae.

Transferable, multiple antibiotic and mercury resistance in Atlantic Canadian isolates of Aeromonas salmonicida subsp. salmonicida is associated with carriage of an IncA/C plasmid similar to the Salmonella enterica plasmid pSN254.

Multilocus sequence typing of IncI1 plasmids carrying extended-spectrum beta-lactamases in Escherichia coli and Salmonella of human and animal origin.

Antibiotic resistance gene transfer between Streptococcus gordonii and Enterococcus faecalis in root canals of teeth ex vivo.

[Fluoroquinolones and Gram-negative bacteria: antimicrobial activity and mechanisms of resistance].

Complete DNA sequence and analysis of the transferable multiple-drug resistance plasmids (R Plasmids) from Photobacterium damselae subsp. piscicida isolates collected in Japan and the United States.

IncHI plasmids, a dynamic link between resistance and pathogenicity.

Type 3 fimbriae, encoded by the conjugative plasmid pOLA52, enhance biofilm formation and transfer frequencies in Enterobacteriaceae strains.

TraM protein of plasmid R1: in vitro selection of the target region reveals two consensus 7 bp binding motifs spaced by a 4 bp linker of defined sequence.

Tetracycline and oxytetracycline resistance determinants detected in Bacillus cereus strains isolated from honey samples.

Conjugation potential and class 1 integron carriage of resident plasmids in river water copiotrophs.

Changes in antimicrobial susceptibility in a population of Salmonella enterica serovar Dublin isolated from cattle in Japan from 1976 to 2005.

Evolutionary analysis of the APA genes in the Phaseolus genus: wild and cultivated bean species as sources of lectin-related resistance factors?

Epidemiology of SHV-type beta-lactamase-producing Klebsiella spp. from outbreaks in five geographically distant Hungarian neonatal intensive care units: widespread dissemination of epidemic R-plasmids.

Gene and cell survival: lessons from prokaryotic plasmid R1.

Functional analysis of ori1 and repA of the R-plasmid pSJ5.6 from Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Reconstitution of DNA segregation driven by assembly of a prokaryotic actin homolog.

Adaptation or selection? Old issues and new stakes in the postwar debates over bacterial drug resistance.

Structure and function of bacterial kid-kis and related toxin-antitoxin systems.

SHV-type extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) are encoded in related plasmids from enterobacteria clinical isolates from Mexico.