Often, the genes carried in plasmids provide bacteria with genetic advantages, such as antibiotic resistance. Plasmids have a wide range of lengths, from roughly one thousand DNA base pairs to ...

Critically, the team discovered how K. pneumoniae spread resistance genes: via plasmids. Plasmids are mobile genetic structures that can carry multiple resistance genes and spread them to other ...

Genes responsible for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) can spread from microbe to microbe through circular genetic material ...

Different bacterial species can exchange resistance genes via so-called plasmids—small DNA molecules that bacteria pass on to each other. This enables bacteria that were previously treatable ...

Different bacterial species can exchange resistance genes via so-called plasmids - small DNA molecules that bacteria pass on to each other. This enables bacteria that were previously treatable with ...