The a to Z of a/C plasmids

CJ Harmer, RM Hall - Plasmid, 2015 - Elsevier
Plasmids belonging to incompatibility groups A and C (now A/C) were among the earliest to
be associated with antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative bacteria. A/C plasmids are large …

Evolution and typing of IncC plasmids contributing to antibiotic resistance in Gram-negative bacteria

SJ Ambrose, CJ Harmer, RM Hall - Plasmid, 2018 - Elsevier
The large, broad host range IncC plasmids are important contributors to the spread of key
antibiotic resistance genes and over 200 complete sequences of IncC plasmids have been …

Antimicrobial Resistance Genes, Cassettes, and Plasmids Present in Salmonella enterica Associated With United States Food Animals

EA McMillan, SK Gupta, LE Williams, T Jové… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The ability of antimicrobial resistance (AR) to transfer, on mobile genetic elements (MGEs)
between bacteria, can cause the rapid establishment of multidrug resistance (MDR) in …

Comparative analysis of extended-spectrum-β-lactamase CTX-M-65-producing Salmonella enterica serovar Infantis isolates from humans, food animals, and retail …

H Tate, JP Folster, CH Hsu, J Chen… - Antimicrobial Agents …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
We sequenced the genomes of 10 Salmonella enterica serovar Infantis isolates containing
bla CTX-M-65 obtained from chicken, cattle, and human sources collected between 2012 …

Tracing Origins of the Salmonella Bareilly Strain Causing a Food-borne Outbreak in the United States

M Hoffmann, Y Luo, SR Monday… - The Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Background. Using a novel combination of whole-genome sequencing (WGS) analysis and
geographic metadata, we traced the origins of Salmonella Bareilly isolates collected in 2012 …

Nanopore sequencing for fast determination of plasmids, phages, virulence markers, and antimicrobial resistance genes in Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli

N Gonzalez-Escalona, MA Allard, EW Brown… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Whole genome sequencing can provide essential public health information. However, it is
now known that widely used short-read methods have the potential to miss some randomly …

Genome Sequence, Assembly and Characterization of Two Metschnikowia fructicola Strains Used as Biocontrol Agents of Postharvest Diseases

E Piombo, N Sela, M Wisniewski, M Hoffmann… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The yeast Metschnikowia fructicola was reported as an efficient biological control agent of
postharvest diseases of fruits and vegetables, and it is the bases of the commercial …

Identification of Unannotated Small Genes in Salmonella

J Baek, J Lee, K Yoon, H Lee - G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Increasing evidence indicates that many, if not all, small genes encoding proteins≤ 100 aa
are missing in annotations of bacterial genomes currently available. To uncover …

Novel linezolid resistance plasmids in Enterococcus from food animals in the USA

GH Tyson, JL Sabo, M Hoffmann… - Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Objectives To sequence the genomes and determine the genetic mechanisms for linezolid
resistance identified in three strains of Enterococcus isolated from cattle and swine caecal …

[HTML][HTML] Genomics of Corynebacterium striatum, an emerging multidrug-resistant pathogen of immunocompromised patients

K Nudel, X Zhao, S Basu, X Dong, M Hoffmann… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2018 - Elsevier
Objectives Corynebacterium striatum is an emerging multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogen of
immunocompromised and chronically ill patients. The objective of these studies was to …