any of a group of bacterial plasmids carrying genetic information that provide resistance to antibiotic drugs: some resistance plasmids are able to transfer themselves, and hence resistance, during conjugation
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resistance plasmid
From the 28 resistant strains, 7 (25%) showed resistance plasmid of 12,000 bp.
Sara Edwirgens Costa Benício Vasconcelos, Hider Machado Melo, Theodora Thays ArrudaCavalcante, Francisco Eduardo Aragão Catunda Júnior, Mário Geraldo de Carvalho, FranciscaGleire Rodrigues Menezes, Oscarina Viana de Sousa, Renata Albuquerque Costa 2017, 'Plectranthus amboinicus essential oil and carvacrol bioactive against planktonic andbiofilm of oxacillin- and vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus', BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicinehttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12906-017-1968-9. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In two samples the presence of tetracycline resistance plasmid was also found, while all the strains were susceptible to enrofloxacin.
Fahimeh Khojasteh, Saeid Hosseinzadeh, Mehdi Fazeli, Maryam Poormontaseri 2018, 'Determination of Tetracycline and Enrofloxacine Resistance in Salmonella IsolatedFrom Poultry', International Journal of Nutrition Scienceshttp://ijns.sums.ac.ir/index.php/IJNS/article/view/79. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)