Staphylococcus epidermidis Phages Transduce Antimicrobial Resistance Plasmids and Mobilize Chromosomal Islands
Lenka Fišarová, Tibor Botka, Xin Du, Ivana Mašlaňová, Pavol Bárdy, Roman Pantůček, Martin Benešík, Pavel Roudnický, Volker Winstel, Jesper Larsen, Ralf Rosenstein, Andreas Peschel, Jiřı́ Doškař
Abstract
Multidrug-resistant strains of S. epidermidis emerge in both nosocomial and livestock environments as the most important pathogens among coagulase-negative staphylococcal species. The study of transduction by phages is essential to understanding how virulence and antimicrobial resistance genes spread in originally commensal bacterial populations.
Topics & Concepts
Staphylococcus epidermidisBiologyMicrobiologyTransduction (biophysics)SiphoviridaePlasmidBacteriophageAntibiotic resistanceStaphylococcus aureusVirologyGeneticsGeneBacteriaEscherichia coliAntibioticsBiochemistryBacteriophages and microbial interactionsAntimicrobial Resistance in StaphylococcusMicrobial infections and disease research