Lateral Antimicrobial Resistance Genetic Transfer is active in the open environment

Abstract Historically, the environment has been viewed as a passive deposit of antimicrobial resistance mechanisms, where bacteria show biological cost for maintenance of these genes. Thus, in the absence of antimicrobial pressure, it is expected that they disappear from environmental bacterial comm...

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Main Authors: Luciana S. Chamosa, Verónica E. Álvarez, Maximiliano Nardelli, María Paula Quiroga, Marcelo H. Cassini, Daniela Centrón
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-03-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00600-2