Replication of bacterial plasmids and antiplasmid therapy

Authors

  • Monika Kosik Zakład Mikrobiologii Farmaceutycznej Warszawskiego Uniwersytetu Medycznego

Abstract

Multiple resistance genes are coded on plasmids transferred by pathogenic microorganisms. Due to increasing drug resistance among microorganisms studying on plasmids provides data useful in searching for new methods of eradication of multidrug resistant bacteria. Replication is a fundamental process that leads to inheritance plasmids by host cells. Replication control system maintains the number of plasmid copies on a certain level in the host cells. The elements of control system become targets for antiplasmid therapies, which try to eradicate plasmids from host cells together with resistance genes.

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plasmid replication control of replication incompatybility antiplasmid therapy

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2011-09-30

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Kosik, M. (2011). Replication of bacterial plasmids and antiplasmid therapy. European Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, 9(3), 365–373. Retrieved from https://journals.ur.edu.pl/ejcem/article/view/12908

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Vol. 9 No. 3 (2011): Medical Journal of the Rzeszow University and the National Medicines Institute, Warsaw

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