Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

Evolution of the murine gut resistome following broad-spectrum antibiotic treatment

  • Laura de Nies,
  • Susheel Bhanu Busi,
  • Mina Tsenkova,
  • Rashi Halder,
  • Elisabeth Letellier,
  • Paul Wilmes

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29919-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Antimicrobial resistance represents an ongoing silent pandemic. Here, de Nies et al. show that a single antibiotic treatment leads to resistance in bacteria such as Akkermansia muciniphila and that integrons play a key role in mediating this resistance.