Identification of essential genes for conjugative transfer in antimicrobial resistance-associated pELF-type linear plasmids of opportunistic pathogen Enterococcus faecium

• Jun Kurushima ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kurushimaj@gunma-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Laboratory of Bacterial Drug Resistance, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Showa-machi, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8573-6169

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• Natsuko Ota,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Showa-machi, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

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• Yuka Yoshii,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Laboratory of Bacterial Drug Resistance, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Showa-machi, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

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• Naoko Tomie,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Laboratory of Bacterial Drug Resistance, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Showa-machi, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

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• Haruyoshi Tomita

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Bacterial Drug Resistance, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Showa-machi, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan, Department of Bacteriology, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Showa-machi, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

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