TABLE 1.

Plasmid curing compounds.

Curing agent	Species of interest	Plasmid target	References
SDS	S. aureus	Penicillinase plasmid	Sonstein and Baldwin, 1972
	E. coli	pBR322;pBR325	Keyhani et al., 2006
	E. coli	212587, 212973, 208366, and 207940 isolates carrying plasmids	Zaman et al., 2010
	P. aeruginosa	pBC15 plasmid	Raja and Selvam, 2009
Ethidium bromide	Streptomycetes	pIJ303 and pIJ61 plasmids	Crameri et al., 1986
	E. coli	212587, 212973, 208366, and 207940 isolates carrying plasmids	Zaman et al., 2010
	L. acidophilus	20.3 bp chloramphenicol resistant plasmid	Karthikeyan and Santosh, 2010
	E. aerogenes	pKpQIL carbapenem resistant plasmid	Pulcrano et al., 2016
Acridin-orange Acriflavine	Salmonella	Chloramphenicol resistant plasmid	Adetosoye and Rotilu, 1985
	Shigella
	Lactobacillus	pDR101	Chassy et al., 1978
	O. oeni	pRS1, pRS2, and pRS3	Mesas et al., 2004
	E. coli	212587, 212973, 208366, and 207940 isolates carrying plasmids	Zaman et al., 2010
	S. aureus	Beta-lactam resistance plasmid	Ojo et al., 2014
Triclosan (irgasan) Fusidic acid	S. aureus	Mupirocin resistance 48 Md plasmid	Irish et al., 1998
	E. coli	pMIB4 plasmid	Riber et al., 2016
Nitric oxide nanoparticles	P. aeruginosa	Plasmid carrying antibiotic-resistance genes	Jones et al., 2010
	S. aureus
	E. coli
	Trichophyton mentagrophytes
	T. rubrum
	A. baumannii
Chitosan	E. coli	Plasmid carrying antibiotic-resistance genes	Bavya et al., 2019
	S. aureus
Silver nanoparticles	S. aureus	methicillin-resistant plasmid	Huang et al., 2011