Nucleotide sequence of pOLA52: a conjugative IncX1 plasmid from Escherichia coli which enables biofilm formation and multidrug efflux

A Norman, LH Hansen, Q She, SJ Sørensen - Plasmid, 2008 - Elsevier
The large conjugative multidrug resistance (MDR) plasmid pOLA52 was sequenced and
annotated. The plasmid encodes two phenotypes normally associated with the …

[HTML][HTML] Sequencing of IncX-Plasmids Suggests Ubiquity of Mobile Forms of a Biofilm-Promoting Gene Cassette Recruited from Klebsiella pneumoniae

M Burmølle, A Norman, SJ Sørensen, LH Hansen - PLoS One, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Plasmids are a highly effective means with which genetic traits that influence human health,
such as virulence and antibiotic resistance, are disseminated through bacterial populations …

Expansion of the IncX plasmid family for improved identification and typing of novel plasmids in drug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae

TJ Johnson, EM Bielak, D Fortini, LH Hansen… - Plasmid, 2012 - Elsevier
IncX plasmids are narrow host range plasmids of Enterobactericeae that have been isolated
for over 50years. They are known to encode type IV fimbriae enabling their own conjugative …

Plasmid pB8 is closely related to the prototype IncP-1β plasmid R751 but transfers poorly to Escherichia coli and carries a new transposon encoding a small multidrug …

A Schlüter, H Heuer, R Szczepanowski, SM Poler… - Plasmid, 2005 - Elsevier
The IncP-1β plasmid pB8, which confers resistance to amoxicillin, spectinomycin,
streptomycin, and sulfonamides, was previously isolated from a sewage treatment plant. It …

The 79,370-bp conjugative plasmid pB4 consists of an IncP-1β backbone loaded with a chromate resistance transposon, the strA-strB streptomycin resistance gene pair, the oxacillinase …

A Tauch, A Schlüter, N Bischoff, A Goesmann… - Molecular Genetics and …, 2003 - Springer
Plasmid pB4 is a conjugative antibiotic resistance plasmid, originally isolated from a
microbial community growing in activated sludge, by means of an exogenous isolation …

Mix and match of KPC-2 encoding plasmids in Enterobacteriaceae-comparative genomics

I Chmelnitsky, M Shklyar, A Leavitt, E Sadovsky… - … and infectious disease, 2014 - Elsevier
We performed comparative sequence analysis of 3 bla KPC-2 encoding plasmids to
examine evolution of these plasmids and their dissemination. We found that all of them have …

Molecular Characterization of an Atypical IncX3 Plasmid pKPC-NY79 Carrying bla KPC-2 in a Klebsiella pneumoniae

PL Ho, YY Cheung, WU Lo, Z Li, KH Chow, CH Lin… - Current …, 2013 - Springer
The IncX family of plasmids has recently been expanded to include at least four subtypes,
IncX1–IncX4. The revised classification provides an opportunity for improving our …

Prevalence and diversity of IncX plasmids carrying fluoroquinolone and β-lactam resistance genes in Escherichia coli originating from diverse sources and …

H Dobiasova, M Dolejska - Journal of Antimicrobial …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Objectives To describe the prevalence and diversity of IncX plasmids with antibiotic
resistance genes in Enterobacteriaceae and to identify the most disseminated lineages of …

Complete Nucleotide Sequences of blaKPC-4- and blaKPC-5-Harboring IncN and IncX Plasmids from Klebsiella pneumoniae Strains Isolated in New Jersey

L Chen, KD Chavda, HS Fraimow… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-producing Enterobacteriaceae have
emerged as major nosocomial pathogens. bla KPC, commonly located on Tn 4401, is found …

Different pathways to acquiring resistance genes illustrated by the recent evolution of IncW plasmids

C Revilla, MP Garcillán-Barcia… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT DNA sequence analysis of five IncW plasmids (R388, pSa, R7K, pIE321, and
pIE522) demonstrated that they share a considerable portion of their genomes and allowed …