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Exploring antibiotic resistance in environmental integron-cassettes through intI-attC amplicons deep sequencing.
Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] - 1 Mar 2021
Dias Marcela França, de Castro Giovanni Marques, de Paiva Magna Cristina, de Paula Reis Mariana, Facchin Susanne, do Carmo Anderson Oliveira, Alves Marta Salgueiro, Suhadolnik Maria Luíza, de Moraes Motta Amanda, Henriques Isabel, Kalapothakis Evanguedes, Lobo Francisco Pereira, Nascimento Andréa Maria Amaral
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INTRODUCTION: Freshwater ecosystems provide propitious conditions for the acquisition and spread of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), and integrons play an important role in this process. MATERIAL AND METHODS: In the present study, the diversity of putative environmental integron-cassettes, as well as their potential bacterial hosts in the Velhas River (Brazil), was explored through intI-attC and 16S rRNA...
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