A reservoir of ‘historical’ antibiotic resistance genes in remote pristine Antarctic soils

BACKGROUND: Soil bacteria naturally produce antibiotics as a competitive mechanism, with a concomitant evolution, and exchange by horizontal gene transfer, of a range of antibiotic resistance mechanisms. Surveys of bacterial resistance elements in edaphic systems have originated primarily from human...

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Autores principales: Van Goethem, Marc W., Pierneef, Rian, Bezuidt, Oliver K. I., Van De Peer, Yves, Cowan, Don A., Makhalanyane, Thulani P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5824556/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29471872
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40168-018-0424-5

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5824556/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29471872
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40168-018-0424-5

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