一个可行的调节策略对抗生素耐药性基因的结合,基于不同的细菌定数感应抑制方法

Chen-Yi Jiang1, Xiao-Chi Feng1, Hong-Tao Shi1

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518055, PR China.

Water research
|December 19, 2024
PubMed
概括

多数感应抑制剂通过抑制等离子体结合,有效地减少了抗生素耐药性基因的传播. 这项研究突出了控制环境中抗生素耐药性基因传播的新策略.

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