Escherichia coli prophage sequences are not present in a carbapenemase plasmid from Klebsiella. Reply to Authors' response to Letter to the Editor: If extraordinary data are not first corroborated, we risk being led astray: Occam's razor does not support the existence of plasmid-prophage chimeras. Comment on 'Effects of cryptic prophage regions in a plasmid carrying a carbapenemase gene on survival against antibiotic stress'

MeSH terms

• Anti-Bacterial Agents
• Bacterial Proteins
• Chimera
• Escherichia coli* / genetics
• Klebsiella
• Plasmids
• Prophages*
• beta-Lactamases / genetics