Worsley-Tonks, Katherine E L Miller, Elizabeth A Anchor, Chris L Bender, Jeff B Gehrt, Stanley D McKenzie, Shane C Singer, Randall S Johnson, Timothy J Craft, Meggan E
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The Science of the total environment
Anthropogenically derived antimicrobial-resistant bacteria (ARB) and antimicrobial resistance genes (ARG) have been detected in wildlife. The likelihood of detecting ARB and ARG in wildlife increases with wildlife exposure to anthropogenic sources of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Whether anthropogenic sources also increase the risk for AMR to spr...
Monárrez, Rubén Okeke, Iruka N.
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BMC Research Notes
ObjectivePlasmids are key to antimicrobial resistance transmission among enteric bacteria. It is becoming increasingly clear that resistance genes alone do not account for the selective advantage of plasmids and bacterial strains that harbor them. Deletion of a 32 Kb fitness-conferring region of pMB2, a conjugative resistance plasmid, produced a hy...
Hu, Xiaomin Huang, Doudou Ogalo, Joseph Geng, Peiling Yuan, Zhiming Xiong, Hairong Wan, Xiaofu Sun, Jiahui
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BMC Microbiology
BackgroundBacillus thuringiensis bacteria share similar genetic, physiological, and biochemical characteristics with other members of the Bacillus cereus group. Their diversity and entomopathogenic origin are related to their mobile genetic elements. However, the effects of wide-spread application of B. thuringiensis-based pesticides on genetically...
Thomson, Nicholas M. Pallen, Mark J.
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Current Research in Biotechnology
• Restoration of motility to flagellin-knockout E. coli depends on choice of promoter. • Plasmid copy number is important when using the natural flagellin promoter. • For inducible promoters, induction strength is more important than copy number. • Large increase in flagellin transcription but not flagella-associated protein. • Plasmid-based expres...
Bande, Faruku Arshad, Siti Suri Bejo, Mohd Hair Omar, Abdul Rahman Moeini, Hassan Khadkodaei, Saeid Wei, Tan Sheau Keong, Yeap Swee Abba, Yusuf Anka, Ibrahim Abubakar
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Microbial Pathogenesis
• DNA vaccine offers a promising advantage for the control of infectious bronchitis in poultry. • A bivalent DNA vaccine based on S1-glycoprotein of M41 and CR88 IBV strains were developed and evaluated. • Vaccination with IBV S-1 gene-based DNA vaccine lead to improved antibody and T cell responses. • Encapsulation of the vaccine with chitosan and...
Kocer, K Boutin, S Probst, K Heeg, K Nurjadi, D
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The Journal of hospital infection
New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase (blaNDM) acquisition by Gram-negative bacteria is a primary concern due to its broad-host-range distribution. This study investigated two potential in-vivo horizontal gene transfers (HGTs) of blaNDM between Enterobacterales and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, initially indicated by polymerase chain reaction. Whole-genome seque...
Vences, Ana Abushattal, Saqr Matanza, Xosé M Dubert, Javier Uzun, Ecren Ogut, Hamdi Osorio, Carlos R
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Microbial ecology
The marine bacterium Photobacterium damselae subsp. damselae is a pathogen that causes disease in diverse marine animals, and is also a serious opportunistic human pathogen that can cause fatal infections. Strains of this pathogen isolated from diseased European sea bass in aquaculture facilities in the Turkish coast of the Black Sea were found to ...
Kivata, Mary Wandia Mbuchi, Margaret Eyase, Fredrick Bulimo, Wallace Dimbuson Kyanya, Cecilia Katunge Oundo, Valerie Mbinda, Wilton Mwema Sang, Willy Andagalu, Ben Soge, Olusegun O.
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BMC Infectious Diseases
BackgroundTreatment of gonorrhea is complicated by the development of antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae (GC) to the antibiotics recommended for treatment. Knowledge on types of plasmids and the antibiotic resistance genes they harbor is useful in monitoring the emergence and spread of bacterial antibiotic resistance. In Kenya, studi...
Cao, Yu-Ping Lin, Qing-Qing He, Wan-Yun Wang, Jing Yi, Meng-Ying Lv, Lu-Chao Yang, Jun Liu, Jian-Hua Guo, Jian-Ying
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Zoological Research
The rise of the plasmid-encoded colistin resistance gene mcr-1 is a major concern globally. Here, during a routine surveillance, an unexpectedly high prevalence of Escherichia coli with reduced susceptibility to colistin (69.9%) was observed in a Chinese broiler farm. Fifty-three (63.9%) E. coli isolates were positive for mcr-1 . All identified mcr...
Tan, Justin Sastry, Anand V Fremming, Karoline S Bjørn, Sara P Hoffmeyer, Alexandra Seo, Sangwoo Voldborg, Bjørn G Palsson, Bernhard O
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Metabolic engineering
Achieving the predictable expression of heterologous genes in a production host has proven difficult. Each heterologous gene expressed in the same host seems to elicit a different host response governed by unknown mechanisms. Historically, most studies have approached this challenge by manipulating the properties of the heterologous gene through me...
