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SUBMITTER: Ridenhour BJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5469168 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ridenhour Benjamin J BJ Metzger Genevieve A GA France Michael M Gliniewicz Karol K Millstein Jack J Forney Larry J LJ Top Eva M EM
Evolutionary applications 20170508 6
The emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance is a crisis in health care today. Antibiotic resistance is often horizontally transferred to susceptible bacteria by means of multidrug resistance plasmids that may or may not persist in the absence of antibiotics. Because bacterial pathogens often grow as biofilms, there is a need to better understand the evolution of plasmid persistence in these environments. Here we compared the evolution of plasmid persistence in the pathogen <i>Acinetobacter ...[more]