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Porcine commensal Escherichia coli: a reservoir for class 1 integrons associated with IS26.
Microbial genomics - 1 Dec 2017
Reid Cameron J, Wyrsch Ethan R, Roy Chowdhury Piklu, Zingali Tiziana, Liu Michael, Darling Aaron E, Chapman Toni A, Djordjevic Steven P
Abstract excerpt
Porcine faecal waste is a serious environmental pollutant. Carriage of antimicrobial-resistance genes (ARGs) and virulence-associated genes (VAGs), and the zoonotic potential of commensal Escherichia coli from swine are largely unknown. Furthermore, little is known about the role of commensal E. coli as contributors to the mobilization of ARGs between food animals and the environment. Here, we report whole-genome...
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