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Abstract

Antimicrobial-resistance (AMR) genes can be transferred between microbial cells via horizontal gene transfer (HGT), which involves mobile and integrative elements such as plasmids, bacteriophages, transposons, integrons and pathogenicity islands. Bacteriophages are found in abundance in the microbial world, but their role in virulence and AMR has not fully been elucidated in the . With short-read sequencing paving the way to systematic high-throughput AMR gene detection, long-read sequencing technologies now enable us to establish how such genes are structurally connected into meaningful genomic units, raising questions about how they might cooperate to achieve their biological function. Here, we describe a novel ~98 kbp circular P1-bacteriophage-like plasmid termed ph681355 isolated from a clinical serovar Typhi isolate. It carries , an IncY plasmid replicon ( gene) and the IS mobile element and is, to our knowledge, the first reported P1-bacteriophage-like plasmid (phage-plasmid) in . Typhi. We compared ph681355 to two previously described phage-plasmids, pSJ46 from . serovar Indiana and pMCR-1-P3 from , and found high nucleotide similarity across the backbone. However, we saw low ph681355 backbone similarity to plasmid p60006 associated with the extensively drug-resistant . Typhi outbreak isolate in Pakistan, providing evidence of an alternative route for transmission. Our discovery highlights the importance of utilizing long-read sequencing in interrogating bacterial genomic architecture to fully understand AMR mechanisms and their clinical relevance. It also raises questions regarding how widespread bacteriophage-mediated HGT might be, suggesting that the resulting genomic plasticity might be higher than previously thought.

Funding
This study was supported by the:
  • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (Award BB/R012504/1 and BBS/E/F/000PR10348)
    • Principle Award Recipient: EmmaV Waters
  • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (Award BB/R012504/1 and BBS/E/F/000PR10348)
    • Principle Award Recipient: GemmaC Langridge
  • National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit
    • Principle Award Recipient: MatthewT Bird
  • National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit (Award NIHR200892)
    • Principle Award Recipient: PaoloRibeca
  • National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit (Award NIHR200892)
    • Principle Award Recipient: MarieAnne Chattaway
  • National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit (Award NIHR200892)
    • Principle Award Recipient: ClaireJenkins
  • National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit (Award NIHR200892)
    • Principle Award Recipient: DavidR Greig
  • This information is licensed under the Open Government Licence 3.0. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. This article was made open access via a Publish and Read agreement between the Microbiology Society and the corresponding author’s institution.
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