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Horizontal gene transfer in the gut: Is it a risk

2009-12-01

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The human gastro-intestinal microbiota involves the highest concentration of microorganisms in the human body and contains both probiotic and pathogenic bacteria. The co-presence of these different bacteria may lead to the occurrence of the so-called horizontal gene transfer (HGT) between these microorganisms. This phenomenon has been shown to allow the transfer of genes encoding virulence traits and antimicrobial...

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Literature Corpus work: 399ddb02-5cb6-5482-9596-2b3dbeb040fd
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2009.08.001

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