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resistance plasmid

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resistance plasmid
n.
Any of the conjugative or nonconjugative plasmids carrying genes responsible for antibiotic or antibacterial drug resistance among bacteria. Also called resistance factor, R factor, R plasmid.
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To the Editor: In a letter recently published in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Smith (1) discussed evidence that he mistakenly believes to undermine the hypothesis that the florfenicol resistance gene present in some isolates of the epidemic Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium DT104 strain originated from a florfenicol resistance plasmid present in Vibrio damsela (Pasteurella piscicida) that infected fish farms in Japan in the 1990s (2).
Aquaculture and florfenicol resistance in Salmonella enterica serovar ... by Cabello, Felipe C.; Smith, Peter / Emerging Infectious Diseases
1987 Persistance of an antibiotic resistance plasmid in intestinal Escherichia coli of chickens in the absence of selective pressure.
The relationship between use of apramycin in the poultry industry and ... by Millar, Jane Rosemary / New Zealand Journal of Medical Laboratory Science
Other workers reported that transmission of resistance plasmids of Escherichia coli from poultry to human intestines commonly occurs (Tabatabaei and Nasirian, 2003).
Plasmid profile of antibiotic resistant Escherichia coli isolated ... by Al-Bahry, Saif N.; Al-Mashani, Basma M.; Elshafie, Abdulkadir E.; Pathare, N.; Al-Harthy, Asila H. / Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science
 
 
 
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