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Antibiotics in Feed Induce Prophages in Swine Fecal Microbiomes

Antibiotics are a cost-effective tool for improving feed efficiency and preventing disease in agricultural animals, but the full scope of their collateral effects is not understood. Antibiotics have been shown to mediate gene transfer by inducing prophages in certain bacterial strains; therefore, on...

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Autores principales: Allen, Heather K., Looft, Torey, Bayles, Darrell O., Humphrey, Samuel, Levine, Uri Y., Alt, David, Stanton, Thaddeus B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society of Microbiology 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3225969/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22128350
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00260-11