Horizontal gene transfer among host-associated microbes

JM de Sousa, M Lourenço, I Gordo - Cell Host & Microbe, 2023 - cell.com
Horizontal gene transfer is an important evolutionary force, facilitating bacterial diversity. It is
thought to be pervasive in host-associated microbiomes, where bacterial densities are high …

Sequencing-based analysis of microbiomes

Y Pinto, AS Bhatt - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Microbiomes occupy a range of niches and, in addition to having diverse compositions, they
have varied functional roles that have an impact on agriculture, environmental sciences, and …

Rapid and sensitive detection of genome contamination at scale with FCS-GX

A Astashyn, ES Tvedte, D Sweeney, V Sapojnikov… - Genome biology, 2024 - Springer
Assembled genome sequences are being generated at an exponential rate. Here we
present FCS-GX, part of NCBI's Foreign Contamination Screen (FCS) tool suite, optimized to …

proGenomes3: approaching one million accurately and consistently annotated high-quality prokaryotic genomes

A Fullam, I Letunic, TSB Schmidt… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The interpretation of genomic, transcriptomic and other microbial 'omics data is highly
dependent on the availability of well-annotated genomes. As the number of publicly …

Positive and negative effects of recirculating aquaculture water advanced oxidation: O3 and O3/UV treatments improved water quality but increased antibiotic …

W Xue, C Zhang, D Zhou - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Recirculating aquaculture systems (RASs) can be efficiently used for aquaculture, and
oxidation treatment is commonly used to improve water quality. However, the effects of …

Inter-species gene flow drives ongoing evolution of Streptococcus pyogenes and Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis

O Xie, JM Morris, AJ Hayes, RJ Towers… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis (SDSE) is an emerging cause of human
infection with invasive disease incidence and clinical manifestations comparable to the …

The evolution of antibiotic resistance islands occurs within the framework of plasmid lineages

Y Wang, T Dagan - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Bacterial pathogens carrying multidrug resistance (MDR) plasmids are a major threat to
human health. The acquisition of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in plasmids is often …

Viral communities contribute more to the lysis of antibiotic-resistant bacteria than the transduction of antibiotic resistance genes in anaerobic digestion revealed by …

J Zhang, T Lu, Y Song, UN Rocha, J Liu… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Ecological role of the viral community on the fate of antibiotic resistance genes
(ARGs)(reduction vs proliferation) remains unclear in anaerobic digestion (AD) …

Antimicrobial resistance in Romania: updates on gram-negative ESCAPE pathogens in the clinical, veterinary, and aquatic sectors

IC Barbu, I Gheorghe-Barbu, GA Grigore… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria such as Acinetobacter baumannii,
Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and members of the Enterobacterales order are a challenging …

[HTML][HTML] Promising bioprocesses for the efficient removal of antibiotics and antibiotic-resistance genes from urban and hospital wastewaters: Potentialities of aerobic …

L Perez-Bou, A Gonzalez-Martinez… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
The use, overuse, and improper use of antibiotics have resulted in higher levels of antibiotic-
resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic-resistance genes (ARGs), which have profoundly …