Selection of a Multidrug Resistance Plasmid by Sublethal Levels of Antibiotics and Heavy Metals

ABSTRACT How sublethal levels of antibiotics and heavy metals select for clinically important multidrug resistance plasmids is largely unknown. Carriage of plasmids generally confers substantial fitness costs, implying that for the plasmid-carrying bacteria to be maintained in the population, the pl...

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Auteurs principaux: Erik Gullberg, Lisa M. Albrecht, Christoffer Karlsson, Linus Sandegren, Dan I. Andersson
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Langue:EN
Publié: American Society for Microbiology 2014
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/ef4821b9d97e4e2f9c5dbe6434d2dd16
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