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Lateral Antimicrobial Resistance Genetic Transfer is active in the open environment.
Scientific reports - 31 Mar 2017
Chamosa Luciana S, Álvarez Verónica E, Nardelli Maximiliano, Quiroga María Paula, Cassini Marcelo H, Centrón Daniela
Abstract excerpt
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 communities. To test this scenario, we studied native IntI1 functionality of 11 class 1 integron-positive environmental strains...
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