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Expanding landscapes of the diversified mcr-1-bearing plasmid reservoirs

BACKGROUND: Polymyxin is a cationic polypeptide antibiotic that can disrupt bacterial cell membrane by interacting with its lipopolysaccharide molecules and is used as a last resort drug against lethal infections by the carbapenem-resistant superbugs (like NDM-1). However, global discovery of the MC...

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Autores principales: Wang, Qingjing, Sun, Jian, Li, Jun, Ding, Youfa, Li, Xing-Ping, Lin, Jingxia, Hassan, Bachar, Feng, Youjun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5500976/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28683827
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40168-017-0288-0