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Mobile Compensatory Mutations Promote Plasmid Survival

The global dissemination of plasmids encoding antibiotic resistance represents an urgent issue for human health and society. While the fitness costs for host cells associated with plasmid acquisition are expected to limit plasmid dissemination in the absence of positive selection of plasmid traits,...

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Autores principales: Zwanzig, Martin, Harrison, Ellie, Brockhurst, Michael A., Hall, James P. J., Berendonk, Thomas U., Berger, Uta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6446977/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30944871
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00186-18