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SUBMITTER: Paulsen IT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC107308 | biostudies-literature | 1998 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Paulsen I T IT Brown M H MH Skurray R A RA
Journal of bacteriology 19980701 13
The staphylococcal qacB-encoding multidrug resistance plasmid pSK156, isolated from a clinical strain dating from 1951, was characterized. Comparison of the regions flanking qacB with other qacA- and qacB-encoding plasmids provided insights into the evolution and dissemination of these multidrug efflux genes and led to the detection of the earliest known copy of the insertion sequence IS257. ...[more]