Mobile Compensatory Mutations Promote Plasmid Survival
ABSTRACT 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...
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American Society for Microbiology
2019
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Online Access: | https://doaj.org/article/3a92a01fcabf4dfb8988c66de6ad9e89 |
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