A Mechanism of Unidirectional Transformation, Leading to Antibiotic Resistance, Occurs within Nasopharyngeal Pneumococcal Biofilm Consortia

ABSTRACT Streptococcus pneumoniae acquires genes for resistance to antibiotics such as streptomycin (Str) or trimethoprim (Tmp) by recombination via transformation of DNA released by other pneumococci and closely related species. Using naturally transformable pneumococci, including strain D39 seroty...

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Autores principales: Santiago M. Lattar, Xueqing Wu, Jennifer Brophy, Fuminori Sakai, Keith P. Klugman, Jorge E. Vidal
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Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/17abeb42db214578907bc8ca8d99c9e2
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