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Disinfection by-products induce population-level antibiotic resistance via mutation-driven competition and membrane reprogramming.
Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) - 15 Jun 2026
Guo Jingjing, Qiu Xiao, Zhang Hao, Chen Gong, Wang Yunkun
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Disinfection by-products (DBPs), persistent non-antibiotic stressors in aquatic environments, impose underrecognized evolutionary pressure on microbial communities. Here, evolution experiments with Escherichia coli MG1655 exposed to environmentally relevant concentrations of five representative DBPs for 30 days revealed a 4- to 16-fold increase in resistance to DNA-targeting antibiotics, including norfloxacin,...
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