Antibiotic resistance and the microbiome are two of the most prominent and highly active research areas currently in microbiology. However, these studies are commonly siloed. Research into antibiotic ...

Plasmid-mediated gene transfer is one of the major drivers of antibiotic resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii; however, plasmid transfer protocols remain inconsistent and strain-dependent. By assessi...

Acinetobacter variabilis is an opportunistic pathogen found in both clinical and environmental settings with the potential to harbour and disseminate clinically significant antibiotic resistance genes...

npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - Pan-genus analysis and typing of antimicrobial resistance plasmids in Acinetobacter

We studied the genomic evolution and transmission dynamics of multidrug-resistant ST15 (Institut Pasteur scheme) Acinetobacter baumannii, examining resistance gene acquisition, clonal diversification,...

Plasmids play a central role in horizontal gene transfer and bacterial adaptation, especially in the context of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) among opportunistic pathogens. Some members of the genus ...

Plasmids are a ubiquitous feature of bacterial genomes, but the evolutionary forces driving genes to become associated with plasmids are poorly understood. To address this problem, we compared the fit...

A tool for generating consensus long-read assemblies for bacterial genomes - rrwick/Autocycler