Multiple Antimicrobial Resistance in Plague: An Emerging Public Health Risk

J. Welch, Timothy; Florian Fricke, W.; F. McDermott, Patrick; G. White, David; Rosso, Marie‐Laure; A. Rasko, David; K. Mammel, Mark; Eppinger, Mark; J. Rosovitz, M.; M. Wagner, David; Rahalison, Lila; Eugene LeClerc, J.; M. Hinshaw, Jeffrey; E. Lindler, Luther; A. Cebula, Thomas; Carniel, Élisabeth; Ravel, Jacques

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000309

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Multiple Antimicrobial Resistance in Plague: An Emerging Public Health Risk

Published in PLoS ONE • Mar 20, 2007

Authors:

Timothy J. Welch

W. Florian Fricke

Patrick F. McDermott

Abstract

Antimicrobial resistance in Yersinia pestis is rare, yet constitutes a significant international public health and biodefense threat. In 1995, the first multidrug resistant (MDR) isolate of Y. pestis (strain IP275) was identified, and was shown to contain a self-transmissible plasmid (pIP1202) that ...

Subject

Yersinia pestis

Plasmid

Salmonella enterica

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