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ArticlemSystems2025

Plasmid-borne

Masego Mmatli, Nontombi Marylucy Mbelle, John Osei Sekyere

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Article in mSystems, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Masego MmatliDepartment of Medical Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-5238-454X
Nontombi Marylucy MbelleDepartment of Medical Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
John Osei SekyereDepartment of Medical Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-9508-984X

Funding

National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) GRANT004 94807National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) GRANT004 94808National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) GRANT004 94809
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A multidrug-resistant clinical IMPORTANCE: A pandrug-resistant pathogen that was susceptible to only a single antibiotic, tigecycline, was isolated from a middle-aged patient in an ICU. This pathogen contained two plasmids and had a chromosome that contained portions that were integrated externally from plasmids. These genomic islands were rich with resistance genes, mobile genetic elements, and restriction-modification systems that protected the pathogen and facilitated gene regulation. The strain contained 35 resistance genes and 12 virulence genes. The strain was of closer evolutionary distance to several international strains suggesting that it was imported into South Africa. However, its resistome was unique, suggesting an independent evolution on exposure to antibiotic therapy mediated by epigenomic factors and MGE transposition events. The varied mechanisms available to this strain to overcome antibiotic resistance and spread to other areas and/or transfer its resistance determinants are worrying. This is ultimately a risk to public health, evincing the need for antibiotic stewardship.

Indexed as

Acinetobacter baumanniiAcinetobacter InfectionsBacterial Proteinsbeta-LactamasesPlasmidsAnti-Bacterial AgentsChromosomes, BacterialDNA Transposable ElementsDrug Resistance, Multiple, BacterialHumansMicrobial Sensitivity TestsAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacterial Proteinsbeta-lactamase NDM-1beta-LactamasescarbapenemaseDNA Transposable Elementscarbapenemcarbapenemasecolistin resistancelast-resort antibioticsmulti-drug resistancenon-fermentersRNAseq

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PMID39992114
PMCPMC11915867

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