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resistance plasmid

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resistance plasmid
n.
See R factor.


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To the Editor: In a letter recently published in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Smith (1) discussed evidence that he mistakenly believes to undermine the hypothesis that the florfenicol resistance gene present in some isolates of the epidemic Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium DT104 strain originated from a florfenicol resistance plasmid present in Vibrio damsela (Pasteurella piscicida) that infected fish farms in Japan in the 1990s (2).
1987 Persistance of an antibiotic resistance plasmid in intestinal Escherichia coli of chickens in the absence of selective pressure.
Other workers reported that transmission of resistance plasmids of Escherichia coli from poultry to human intestines commonly occurs (Tabatabaei and Nasirian, 2003).
 
 
 
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