Adaptive evolution of plasmid and chromosome contributes to the fitness of a blaNDM-bearing cointegrate plasmid in Escherichia coli.

ISME J · 2024 · PMC10976473 · PMID 38438143

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Furthermore, biofilm-forming capacity was significantly enhanced in two of the evolved clones (C600e-pL53T-1e: P < .05; C600e-pL53T-3e: P < .01), whereas the third clone showed a trend toward improvement (C600e-pL53T-2e: P = .1589) ( Fig. 1C ).

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