1. Recombination of plasmids in a carbapenem-resistant NDM-5-producing clinical Escherichia coli isolate.
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Miaomiao Xie, Ruichao Li, Zhonghua Liu, Wai Chi Chan, Edward, Sheng Chen, Xie, Miaomiao, Li, Ruichao, Liu, Zhonghua, Chan, Edward Wai Chi, and Chen, Sheng
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DRUG resistance in bacteria ,PLASMIDS ,CARBAPENEMASE ,ESCHERICHIA coli ,BETA lactamases - Abstract
Objectives: To investigate the genetic features of five plasmids recovered from an NDM-5-producing clinical Escherichia coli strain, BJ114, and to characterize the plasmid recombination event that occurred during the conjugation process.Methods: The genetic profiles of the five plasmids were determined by PCR, conjugation, S1-PFGE, Southern hybridization and WGS analysis. Plasmid sequences were analysed with various bioinformatic tools.Results: Complete sequences of five plasmids were obtained. Two small plasmids, pBJ114-141 and pBJ114-46, were speculated to have recombined into a large fusion plasmid, pBJ114T-190. When conjugated to other E. coli strains, some of the fusion plasmids were able to be resolved into the original two single plasmids. A non-conjugative plasmid, pBJ114-96, exhibited a high degree of sequence identity with the phage P7-like plasmid as well as an mcr-1-bearing plasmid. Another plasmid, pBJ114-78, was found to contain multidrug resistance genes and various mobile elements.Conclusions: The fusion plasmid recoverable from the transconjugant was found to be generated as a result of a recombination event that occurred upon interaction between a blaNDM-5-carrying plasmid and another plasmid present in the parental strain. Such recombination events presumably play a potential role in the dissemination of the blaNDM genes among different plasmids and pathogenic bacterial strains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2018
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