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Annette Søndergaard1, Alvaro San Millan, Alfonso Santos-Lopez, Signe M Nielsen, Bruno Gonzalez-Zorn, Niels Nørskov-Lauritsen.
Abstract
TEM-1 is the dominant β-lactamase of Haemophilus influenzae and can be located on small plasmids. Three distinct plasmids with sizes from 4,304 to 5,646 nucleotides (nt) were characterized: pA1606, pA1209, and pPN223. In addition to TEM-1 and a replication enzyme of the Rep 3 superfamily, pA1606 carries a Tn3 resolvase gene and pA1606 and pA1209 carry an open reading frame (ORF) similar to a plasmid recombination enzyme gene described in Gram-positive bacteria. The plasmids transformed strain Rd to the ampicillin-resistant phenotype.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22733069 PMCID: PMC3421876 DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00408-12
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Antimicrob Agents Chemother ISSN: 0066-4804 Impact factor: 5.191