Strain-resolved microbiome sequencing reveals mobile elements that drive bacterial competition on a clinical timescale

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BACKGROUND: Populations of closely related microbial strains can be simultaneously present in bacterial communities such as the human gut microbiome. We recently developed a de novo genome assembly approach that uses read cloud sequencing to provide more complete microbial genome drafts, enabling precise differentiation and tracking of strain-level dynamics across metagenomic samples. In this case study, we...

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