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Diversity of the Tetracycline Mobilome within a Chinese Pig Manure Sample.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Nov 2016
Leclercq Sébastien Olivier, Wang Chao, Zhu Yaxin, Wu Hai, Du Xiaochen, Liu Zhipei, Feng Jie
Abstract excerpt
Tetracycline antibiotics are widely used in livestock, and tetracycline resistance genes (TRG) are frequently reported in the manure of farmed animals. However, the diversity of TRG-carrying transposons in manure has still been rarely investigated. Using a culture-free functional metagenomic procedure, combined with large-insert library construction and sequencing, bioinformatic analyses, and functional...
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