Publications by authors named "M Rozwandowicz"
We investigated to what extent the consumption of raw or undercooked vegetables, fruits, and fresh herbs influences carriage rates of ESBL/pAmpC-producing and (ESBL-E/K) in the general population. We assessed long-term carriage and changes in ESBL-E/K prevalence over time, by comparing the results to findings in the same population 5 years earlier. Between July and December 2021, participants sent in two fecal samples and questionnaires, 3 months apart.
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- * This study investigates the interaction between two subgroups of I-complex plasmids, IncK1 and IncK2, focusing on their RNAI structures, which differ by only five nucleotides and determine their compatibility.
- * Through experiments with minireplicons and targeted mutations, the research found that only specific nucleotide changes in the RNAI structure affect compatibility, highlighting the importance of these findings for predicting plasmid behavior in future research.
Objectives: Plasmid-mediated colistin resistance can be transferred from animals to humans. We investigated the prevalence of carriage of -mediated colistin-resistant and (ColR-E/K) in veterinary healthcare workers and in the general population in the Netherlands.
Methods: Two cross-sectional population studies were performed: one among veterinary healthcare workers and one in the general population.
Plasmid incompatibility is the inability of two plasmids to be stably maintained in one cell, resulting in loss of one of the plasmids in daughter cells. Dislodgement is a phenotypically distinct form of incompatibility, described as an imperfect reproduction, manifesting in rapid exclusion of a resident plasmid after superinfection. The relationship between plasmids of the phenotypic incompatibility groups IncB/O and IncZ is unclear.
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