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船舶:确定在等离子体之间的抗微生物耐药性基因转移

Marco Teixeira1,2,3, Stephanie Pillay3, Aysun Urhan3,4

  • 1Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto 4200-465, Portugal.

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
|October 5, 2023
PubMed
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塑体之间的抗菌素耐药性 (AMR) 基因转移很难追踪. 一种名为SHIP的新方法可以在多种类型的等离子体中识别保存的AMR基因片段,揭示它们的动员和传播.

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