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Global neuroinformatics: the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility.

There is a growing awareness in the neuroscience community of the need for databases extending from genes to cognition and disease mechanisms. Such databases are important for data sharing as well as for modeling and use of computational tools at different levels. The development of this area, neuroinformatics, would benefit from a major concerted action. For this reason 12 member countries of ...

Neuroimaging Database Integration 1st Incf Workshop on Neuroimaging Database Integration Scientific Organizer Workshop Participants Supported by the Eu Special Support Action Incf, the Incf Central Fund and the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research Contents

Replicon sequence typing of IncF plasmids carrying virulence and resistance determinants.

OBJECTIVES IncF plasmids are frequently encountered in clinical enterobacterial strains associated with the dissemination of relevant antimicrobial resistance and virulence genes. These plasmids are usually heterogeneous in size and carry multiple replicons, and technical difficulties can impair the comparison and detection of related plasmids by restriction fragment length polymorphism analysi...

IncF plasmid diversity in multi-drug resistant Escherichia coli strains from animals in China

The purpose of this study was to characterize a collection of 103 multidrug resistance IncF plasmids recovered from Escherichia coli of food producing and companion animals between 2003 and 2012. A total of 103 incF plasmids were characterized using an established PCR-based IncF replicon sequence typing (RST) system to identify FII, FIA, and FIB (FAB) groups. Plasmids were also analyzed using-r...

Replicon sequence typing of IncF plasmids and the genetic environments of blaCTX-M-15 indicate multiple acquisitions of blaCTX-M-15 in Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from South Korea.

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to investigate variations in IncF plasmids and the genetic environments of bla(CTX-M-15) in CTX-M-15-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from South Korea. METHODS A total of 56 E. coli and 15 K. pneumoniae isolates, which were previously characterized for CTX-M-15 production, sequence type by multilocus sequence typing and rep...