Antibiotic Resistance in <named-content content-type="genus-species">Vibrio cholerae</named-content>: Mechanistic Insights from IncC Plasmid-Mediated Dissemination of a Novel Family of Genomic Islands Inserted at <italic toggle="yes">trmE</italic>

ABSTRACT Cholera remains a formidable disease, and reports of multidrug-resistant strains of the causative agent Vibrio cholerae have become common during the last 3 decades. The pervasiveness of resistance determinants has largely been ascribed to mobile genetic elements, including SXT/R391 integra...

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Main Authors: Nicolas Rivard, Rita R. Colwell, Vincent Burrus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2020-08-01
Series:mSphere
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00748-20