Concerning Cargo (IMAGE)

Boston Children's Hospital

Concerning Cargo

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Botulinum toxin was able to jump into a new type of bacteria, Enterococcus, through plasmids, mobile structures that contain DNA independently of the chromosomes and can be swapped from one bacterium to another.

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Elena Hartley

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