Recombination and selection can remove blaTEM alleles from bacterial populations.

Antimicrob Agents Chemother

School of Natural Sciences, University of California, Merced, 5200 North Lake Road, Merced, California 95343, USA.

Published: September 2008

We passaged cells expressing TEM-1 and TEM-12 from a single plasmid through either ampicillin or ceftazidime. We found that the combined effects of recombination and selection removed the bla(TEM-1) allele from the bacterial population when it was passaged through ceftazidime or the bla(TEM-12) allele when cultures were passaged through ampicillin.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2533445PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AAC.00501-08DOI Listing

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