CRISPR-Cas System in Antibiotic Resistance Plasmids in Klebsiella pneumoniae

CRISPR-Cas (clustered regularly interspersed short palindromic repeats-CRISPR-associated protein) is a microbial adaptive immune system involved in defense against different types of mobile genetic elements. CRISPR-Cas systems are usually found in bacterial and archaeal chromosomes but have also bee...

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Main Authors: Muhammad Kamruzzaman, Jonathan R. Iredell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02934/full