Bacteroidales species in the human gut are a reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes regulated by invertible promoters

Abstract Antibiotic-resistance genes (ARGs) regulated by invertible promoters can mitigate the fitness cost of maintaining ARGs in the absence of antibiotics and could potentially prolong the persistence of ARGs in bacterial populations. However, the origin, prevalence, and distribution of these ARG...

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Main Authors: Wei Yan, A. Brantley Hall, Xiaofang Jiang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-01-01
Series:npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41522-021-00260-1