Chicken liver is a potential reservoir of bacteriophages and phage‐derived particles containing antibiotic resistance genes

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Summary Poultry meat production is one of the most important agri‐food industries in the world. The selective pressure exerted by widespread prophylactic or therapeutic use of antibiotics in intensive chicken farming favours the development of drug resistance in bacterial populations. Chicken liver, closely connected with the intestinal tract, has been directly involved in food‐borne infections and found to be...

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