Antibiotics in Feed Induce Prophages in Swine Fecal Microbiomes

Antibiotics are a cost-effective tool for improving feed efficiency and preventing disease in agricultural animals, but the full scope of their collateral effects is not understood. Antibiotics have been shown to mediate gene transfer by inducing prophages in certain bacterial strains; therefore, on...

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Main Authors: Allen, Heather K., Looft, Torey, Bayles, Darrell O., Humphrey, Samuel, Levine, Uri Y., Alt, David, Stanton, Thaddeus B.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: American Society of Microbiology 2011
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3225969/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22128350
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00260-11
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