Antibiotic-Regulated Plasmid Copy Number Variation: A Driver of Antibiotic Resistance?
Plasmids are small circular DNA molecules within bacterial cells that are separated from the bacterial chromosome and replicate independently. Also, they play a crucial role in the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes among bacteria through horizontal gene transfer. They can be present in ma...
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Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för medicinsk biokemi och mikrobiologi
2019
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Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-388523 |