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SUBMITTER: Zhu WH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2786365 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 20090914 12
In this work we report the characterization of plasmid pCTX-M360, isolated from a Klebsiella pneumoniae strain from China and encoding the CTX-M-3 extended-spectrum beta-lactamase. Sequence analysis of pCTX-M360 revealed extensive similarity with pEL60 and pCTX-M3, two other enterobacterial plasmids of the IncL/M incompatibility group. Compared to pEL60, pCTX-M360 contains several insertions but lacks most of a 27-kb insert found in pCTX-M3, suggesting that it could be an evolutionary intermedia ...[more]