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A cadmium resistance plasmid, pXU5, in Staphylococcus aureus, strain ATCC25923
1Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, P.O. Box 24923, 13110, Safat, Kuwait. edet@hsc.kuniv.edu.kw
FEMS Microbiology Letters
|July 29, 2000
Abstract:
A 25.9-kb plasmid, pXU5, encoding high level cadmium resistance was isolated from Staphylococcus aureus strain ATCC25923. A labelled cadA probe from plasmid pI258 hybridised to a 2.3-kb EcoRI fragment of pXU5. pXU5 was incompatible with an S. aureus incompatibility group 1 plasmid.