Comment on “the IS6 family, a clinically important group of insertion sequences including IS26” by Varani and co-authors

Abstract The insertion sequence IS26 has long been known to play a major role in the recruitment of antibiotic resistance genes into the mobile resistance gene pool of Gram-negative bacteria and IS26 also plays a major role in their subsequent broad dissemination. Related IS, IS431/257 and IS1216 ar...

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Main Author: Ruth M. Hall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-01-01
Series:Mobile DNA
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13100-021-00257-9