Molecular Characterization of a 21.4 Kilobase Antibiotic Resistance Plasmid from an α-Hemolytic Escherichia coli O108:H- Human Clinical Isolate

• Fay E. Dawes,

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

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• Dieter M. Bulach,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

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• Alexander Kuzevski,

  Affiliation Microbiological Diagnostic Unit, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Karl A. Bettelheim,

  Current address: Rosedale Lodge, London, United Kingdom

  Affiliation Microbiological Diagnostic Unit, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Carola Venturini,

  Affiliation School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences and the Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre, University of Queensland, Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

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• Steven P. Djordjevic,

  Affiliations Microbiology and Immunology Section, Industry and Investment NSW, Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute, Menangle, New South Wales, Australia, The ithree Institute, University of Technology, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Mark J. Walker

  * E-mail: mark.walker@uq.edu.au

  Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences and the Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre, University of Queensland, Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

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