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Phages rarely encode antibiotic resistance genes: a cautionary tale for virome analyses
2016-05-12
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Antibiotic resistance genes (ARG) are pervasive in gut microbiota, but it remains unclear how often ARG are transferred, particularly to pathogens. Traditionally, ARG spread is attributed to horizontal transfer mediated either by DNA transformation, bacterial conjugation or generalized transduction. However, recent viral metagenome (virome) analyses suggest that ARG are frequently carried by phages, which is incon...
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- dcc2d1f6-1c85-539d-9840-e579f2fa4301
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- 10.1101/053025