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Could bacteriophages transfer antibiotic resistance genes from environmental bacteria to human-body associated bacterial populations?

Environments without any contact with anthropogenic antibiotics show a great abundance of antibiotic resistance genes that use to be chromosomal and are part of the core genes of the species that harbor them. Some of these genes are shared with human pathogens where they appear in mobile genetic ele...

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Autores principales: Muniesa, Maite, Colomer-Lluch, Marta, Jofre, Juan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Landes Bioscience 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3812792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24195016
http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/mge.25847