Virulence Plasmid
Arcobacter cryaerophilus isolated from New Zealand mussels harbor a putative virulence plasmid
... attained higher quality scores. Moreover, a subsequent study concluded that sequencing technologies generating shorter sequence reads (i.e., the genome sequence is encompassed in many contiguous fragments) present major ...
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Mechanism of resistance to complement mediated killing of bacteria encoded by the Salmonella typhimurium virulence plasmid gene rck
... typhimurium virulence plasmid, when cloned into either rough or smooth Escherichia coli and Salmonella strains, confers high level resistance to the bactericidal activity of pooled normal human ...of ...
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Fast and efficient three-step target-specific curing of a virulence plasmid in Salmonella enterica
... the virulence plasmid of the serovar Typhimurium, thus making it not only a virulence determinant, but also the source a multi- drug resistance phenotype (Herrero-Fresno et ...
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Salmonella Virulence Plasmid: Modular Acquisition of the spv Virulence Region by an F-Plasmid in Salmonella enterica Subspecies I and Insertion Into the Chromosome of Subspecies II, IIIa, IV and VII Isolates
... the virulence plasmid was found in the same set of isolates as an F-related plasmid, as determined by the presence of the spv region of the virulence plasmid and the finO, traD, and ...
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Horizontal Transfer of the Salmonella enterica Serovar Infantis Resistance and Virulence Plasmid pESI to the Gut Microbiota of Warm Blooded Hosts
... single-copy-number plasmid is somewhat expected, as other large conjugative plasmids were also shown to be maintained in a very low copy number ...R64 plasmid was previously suggested to encode a putative ...
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Acute mesenteric lymphadenitis due to Yersinia pseudotuberculosis lacking a virulence plasmid
... pseudotuberculosis sero- type 4a strains Pa12983 and 149C, which maintained chromosome-mediated properties, invaded the intestinal mucosa and Peyer's patches and were recovered from the [r] ...
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Detection of toxB, a Plasmid Virulence Gene of Escherichia coli O157, in Enterohemorrhagic and Enteropathogenic E coli
... The virulence plasmid of Escherichia coli O157 strain EDL933 carries a 10-kb putative virulence gene designated toxB. Little is known about the distribution of this gene among E. coli O157 strains or ...
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Production of the Subtilase AB5 Cytotoxin by Shiga Toxin Negative Escherichia coli
... coli (STEC) strains that usually lack the locus for enterocyte effacement (LEE). We report for the first time the production of SubAB by two Stx-negative E. coli strains, isolated from unrelated cases of childhood ...
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Characteristics of Yersinia intermedia like bacteria isolated from patients with diarrhea in Nigeria
... Although they lacked the 42-MDa virulence plasmid, the isolates from patients 1 to 4 caused diarrhea in orally infected mice and rabbits and invaded the livers or spleens without causing[r] ...
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<p>High prevalence of KPC-2-producing hypervirulent <em>Klebsiella pneumoniae</em> causing meningitis in Eastern China</p>
... pLVPK-like virulence plasmid and carbapen- emase gene-encoding plasmid, whole chromosomal DNA of 15 strains positive for both rmpA2 and bla KPC-2 were subjected to S1 nuclease (Takara, Shiga, Japan) ...
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Detection and Molecular Identification of Plasmid Virulence Genes in Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium Isolated from Human and Animals by Multiplex PCR Method
... specific virulence plasmid (90 kb) containing the spv operon ...the virulence and multiplication of intracellular Salmonella (14, ...that virulence plasmid of ...the plasmid ...
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The Complete Sequence and Comparative Analysis of a Multidrug Resistance and Virulence Multireplicon IncFII Plasmid pEC302/04 from an Extraintestinal Pathogenic Escherichia coli EC302/04 Indicate Extensive Diversity of IncFII Plasmids
... bacterial plasmid is an important agent for introducing adaptive traits horizontally to bacterial hosts as well as contributing to bacterial pathogenesis and ...carry virulence and resistance genes besides ...
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Rapid phenotypic evolution in multidrug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae hospital outbreak strains
... lance initiative at a Beijing hospital. Using WGS analyses, we show that these isolates had been in circulation for at least 1 year prior to the initiation of our sampling efforts and had accumulated extensive genetic ...
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Detection of pYV+ Yersinia enterocolitica isolates by P1 slide agglutination
... Genetic analysis of virulence plasmid from a serogroup 9 Yersinia enterocolitica strain: role of outer membrane protein Pi in resistance to human serum and autoagglutination.. The replic[r] ...
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Virulence genes and antibiotic resistance of Yersinia enterocolitica strains isolated from children
... a virulence plasmid pYV. This plasmid encodes type III secretion system and the outer membrane protein YadA (Yersinia adhesin ...enterocolitica virulence markers are ail, ystA and myfA ...in ...
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Pyrazinamidase, CR MOX agar, salicin fermentation esculin hydrolysis, and D xylose fermentation for identifying pathogenic serotypes of Yersinia enterocolitica
... The pyrazinamidase test, which does not depend on the Yersinia virulence plasmid, correctly identified 60 of 63 95% sensitivity strains of pathogenic serotypes and 34 of 37 92% specifici[r] ...
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Complete genome sequence of Vibrio anguillarum strain NB10, a virulent isolate from the Gulf of Bothnia
... chromosome 1, an oriCI region similar to that found in other γ-proteobacteria was found and spans 481 nucleo- tides (3,119,582 - 367 nt) [36–38]. For chromosome 2, an oriCII region similar to that of V. cholerae and ...
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Adherence Factors in Atypical Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Strains Expressing the Localized Adherence Like Pattern in HEp 2 Cells
... (EAF) virulence plasmid that contains the bun- dle-forming pili (BFP) responsible for a localized adherence (LA) pattern on cultured epithelial cells (5, 8, 28), but aEPEC strains display different ...
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<p>Phenotypic and Genomic Characterization of Virulence Heterogeneity in Multidrug-Resistant ST11 <em>Klebsiella pneumoniae</em> During Inter-Host Transmission and Evolution</p>
... conjugative virulence plasmid that can rapidly enhance dissemination of virulence-encoding elements among Gram-negative bacterial pathogens, particularly ...IncHI1B, plasmid replicon and ...
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Detection and Characterization of Verocytotoxin Producing Escherichia coli by Automated 5′ Nuclease PCR Assay
... of virulence factors typically present in VTEC isolates, including subtypes of three genes of the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE) pathogenicity ...expected virulence profiles were detected for all ...
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