Phages rarely encode antibiotic resistance genes: a cautionary tale for virome analyses

Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are pervasive in gut microbiota, but it remains unclear how often ARGs are transferred, particularly to pathogens. Traditionally, ARG spread is attributed to horizontal transfer mediated either by DNA transformation, bacterial conjugation or generalized transductio...

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Published in:	The ISME Journal Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 237 - 247
Main Authors:	Enault, François, Briet, Arnaud, Bouteille, Léa, Roux, Simon, Sullivan, Matthew B, Petit, Marie-Agnès
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.01.2017 Oxford University Press Nature Publishing Group
Subjects:	45 631/326/22/1290 704/158/855 Anti-Bacterial Agents - pharmacology Antibiotic resistance Bacteriophages - genetics Bacteriophages - metabolism Biomedical and Life Sciences Drug Resistance, Bacterial E coli Ecology Escherichia coli Escherichia coli - drug effects Escherichia coli - genetics Escherichia coli - virology Evolutionary Biology Genome, Viral Life Sciences Metagenome Microbial Ecology Microbial Genetics and Genomics Microbiology Original original-article Quantitative Methods Viral Proteins - genetics Viral Proteins - metabolism
ISSN:	1751-7362, 1751-7370
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