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SUBMITTER: Johnson TJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1635206 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20060828 11
We have sequenced a large plasmid that occurs among avian pathogenic Escherichia coli isolates. This plasmid, pAPEC-O1-R, is a 241,387-bp IncHI2 plasmid which is cotransmissible via bacterial conjugation with a ColBM virulence plasmid, encodes resistance to eight antimicrobial agents, and appears to occur at low rates among extraintestinal E. coli isolates. ...[more]