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...
Guardado en:
Autores principales: | Santiago M. Lattar, Xueqing Wu, Jennifer Brophy, Fuminori Sakai, Keith P. Klugman, Jorge E. Vidal |
---|---|
Formato: | article |
Lenguaje: | EN |
Publicado: |
American Society for Microbiology
2018
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://doaj.org/article/17abeb42db214578907bc8ca8d99c9e2 |
Etiquetas: |
Agregar Etiqueta
Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!
|
Ejemplares similares
-
COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA PNEUMOCOCCAL ETIOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF NASOPHARYNGEAL CARRIAGE IN CHILDREN IN THE REPUBLIC OF TATARSTAN
por: L. T. Bayazitova, et al.
Publicado: (2017) -
The Arginine Deiminase Pathway Impacts Antibiotic Tolerance during Biofilm-Mediated <named-content content-type="genus-species">Streptococcus pyogenes</named-content> Infections
por: Jeffrey A. Freiberg, et al.
Publicado: (2020) -
Biofilm and persister cell fo mation variability in clinical isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae in Colombia
por: Leonardo Posada, Iván C. Acosta, Lina Zárate, Paula Rodríguez, Mónica Gabriela Huertas, María Mercedes Zambrano
Publicado: (2020) -
A Quorum-Sensing System That Regulates <named-content content-type="genus-species">Streptococcus pneumoniae</named-content> Biofilm Formation and Surface Polysaccharide Production
por: Roger Junges, et al.
Publicado: (2017) -
Capacity To Utilize Raffinose Dictates Pneumococcal Disease Phenotype
por: Vikrant Minhas, et al.
Publicado: (2019)