Encounter rates and engagement times limit the transmission of conjugative plasmids

• Jorge Rodriguez-Grande,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Instituto de Biomedicina y Biotecnologia de Cantabria IBBTEC, Spanish National Research Council CSIC – University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Valdecilla (IDIVAL), Santander, Spain, Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8229-6049

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• Yelina Ortiz,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Biomedicina y Biotecnologia de Cantabria IBBTEC, Spanish National Research Council CSIC – University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain

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• Daniel Garcia-Lopez,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Biomedicina y Biotecnologia de Cantabria IBBTEC, Spanish National Research Council CSIC – University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7909-1130

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• M. Pilar Garcillán-Barcia,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Biomedicina y Biotecnologia de Cantabria IBBTEC, Spanish National Research Council CSIC – University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7058-5428

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• Fernando de la Cruz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Biomedicina y Biotecnologia de Cantabria IBBTEC, Spanish National Research Council CSIC – University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain

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• Raul Fernandez-Lopez

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: raul.fernandez@unican.es

  Affiliation Instituto de Biomedicina y Biotecnologia de Cantabria IBBTEC, Spanish National Research Council CSIC – University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9624-9059

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