Publications by authors named "Yasmin Mahamoud"
Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA7 is a non-respiratory human isolate from Argentina that is multiresistant to antibiotics. We first sequenced gyrA, gyrB, parC, parE, ampC, ampR, and several housekeeping genes and found that PA7 is a taxonomic outlier. We report here the complete sequence of the 6,588,339 bp genome, which has only about 95% overall identity to other strains.
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- Bacillus anthracis, the bacterium that causes inhalational anthrax, has key virulence factors located on two specific plasmids, pXO1 and pXO2.
- A complete analysis of the B. anthracis Ames chromosome revealed additional genes potentially linked to its pathogenicity, including those involved in iron acquisition and surface proteins that could be targets for vaccines.
- Comparative studies showed that although chromosomal genes are similar among related Bacillus species, the plasmid genes exhibited more variability, indicating that plasmids may move more easily between strains.