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Molecular Insights into Antimicrobial Resistance Traits of Commensal Human Gut Microbiota.
Microbial ecology - 1 Feb 2019
Bag Satyabrata, Ghosh Tarini Shankar, Banerjee Sayantan, Mehta Ojasvi, Verma Jyoti, Dayal Mayanka, Desigamani Anbumani, Kumar Pawan, Saha Bipasa, Kedia Saurabh, Ahuja Vineet, Ramamurthy Thandavarayan, Das Bhabatosh
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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) among bacterial species that resides in complex ecosystems is a natural phenomenon. Indiscriminate use of antimicrobials in healthcare, livestock, and agriculture provides an evolutionary advantage to the resistant variants to dominate the ecosystem. Ascendency of resistant variants threatens the efficacy of most, if not all, of the antimicrobial drugs commonly used to prevent...
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