Evidence for wastewaters as environments where mobile antibiotic resistance genes emerge
Wastewaters have a high abundance of the bacterial species from which many mobile resistance genes emerged, as well as the genetic elements that provided mobility. This makes wastewaters plausible evolutionary arenas for such mobilization events.
| Main Authors: | , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2023-03-01
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| Series: | Communications Biology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04676-7 |
| Summary: | Wastewaters have a high abundance of the bacterial species from which many mobile resistance genes emerged, as well as the genetic elements that provided mobility. This makes wastewaters plausible evolutionary arenas for such mobilization events. |
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| ISSN: | 2399-3642 |