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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,...
Autores principales: | Zwanzig, Martin, Harrison, Ellie, Brockhurst, Michael A., Hall, James P. J., Berendonk, Thomas U., Berger, Uta |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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