This study assessed differences in the conjugative transfer of an IncP-1 (pKJK5) plasmid to three natural Escherichia coli strains carrying extended-spectrum beta-lactamases, by filter mating. Matings ...

State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Resources, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214122, People’s Republic of China ...

Klebsiella pneumoniae, first described by Carl Friedlander in 1882, is a capsulated, anaerobic facultative, and rod-shaped gram-negative bacterium. This pathogen is found ubiquitously in nature, ...