Functional Characterization of the Antibiotic Resistance Reservoir in the Human Microflora
Functional Characterization of the Antibiotic Resistance Reservoir in the Human Microflora
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Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science
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To understand the process by which antibiotic resistance genes are acquired by human pathogens, we functionally characterized the resistance reservoir in the microbial flora of healthy individuals. Most of the resistance genes we identified using culture-independent sampling have not been previously identified and are evolutionarily distant from kn...
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Functional Characterization of the Antibiotic Resistance Reservoir in the Human Microflora
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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_4720503
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_4720503
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0036-8075
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1095-9203
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10.1126/science.1176950
