This process involves bacterial conjugation, where a conjugative plasmid found in one bacterial strain facilitates the transfer of a mobilizable plasmid from a second bacterial strain to a third bacterial strain.
In the method from our lab, CC118λpir containing a pSEVA plasmid works as the donor, the E. coli 1047 pRK2013 strand is the helper, and the receiver is a C. rodentium strand.