BioinformaticsMicrobial GenomicsPeer-reviewed
Plasmid conjugation drives within-patient plasmid diversity
Fan Grayson, Leo Loman, Toby Nonnenmacher…·Alice Ledda
This study shows that plasmid conjugation is the main driver of within-patient plasmid diversity, as most patients share identical OXA-48 plasmids across different bacterial hosts.