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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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2020-01-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Microbiology |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02934/full |