Ancient permafrost staphylococci carry antibiotic resistance genes

Background: Permafrost preserves a variety of viable ancient microorganisms. Some of them can be cultivated after being kept at subzero temperatures for thousands or even millions of years. Objective: To cultivate bacterial strains from permafrost. Design: We isolated and cultivated two bacterial st...

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Main Authors: Elena Kashuba, Alexey A. Dmitriev, Shady Mansour Kamal, Ojar Melefors, Gennady Griva, Ute Römling, Ingemar Ernberg, Vladimir Kashuba, Anatoli Brouchkov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2017-01-01
Series:Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16512235.2017.1345574