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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2017-03-01
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Series: | Scientific Reports |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00600-2 |