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ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY
Volume 58, Issue 1, Pages 467-471Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01344-13
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- INSERM [U914]
- Ministere de l'Education Nationale et de la Recherche [UPRES-EA3539]
- Universite Paris XI, France
- European Community [R-GNOSIS, FP7/HEALTH-F3-2011-282512, MAGIC-BULLET, FP7/HEALTH-F3-2001-278232]
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The current emergence of the carbapenemase OXA-48 among Enterobacteriaceae is related to the spread of a single IncL/M-type plasmid, pOXA-48a. This plasmid harbors the bla(OXA-48) gene within a composite transposon, Tn1999, which is inserted into the tir gene, encoding a transfer inhibition protein. We showed that the insertion of Tn1999 into the tir gene was involved in a higher transfer frequency of plasmid pOXA-48a. This may likely be the key factor for the successful dissemination of this plasmid.
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