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Spreading antibiotic resistance through spread manure: characteristics of a novel plasmid type with low %G+C content.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Apr 2009
Heuer Holger, Kopmann Christoph, Binh Chu T T, Top Eva M, Smalla Kornelia
Abstract excerpt
Bioactive amounts of antibiotics as well as resistant bacteria reach the soil through manure fertilization. We investigated plasmids that may stimulate the environmental spread and interspecies transfer of antibiotic resistance. After treatment of two soils with manure, either with or without the sulfonamide antibiotic sulfadiazine, a significant increase in copies of the sulfonamide resistance gene sul2 was...
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