Are Virulence and Antibiotic Resistance Genes Linked? A Comprehensive Analysis of Bacterial Chromosomes and Plasmids.

Antibiotics (Basel) · 2022 · PMC9220345 · PMID 35740113

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Although the dataset studied here was expected to be enriched with pathogenic bacterial genomes, we did not identify an overall trend towards the existence of a genetic linkage between virulence and antibiotic resistance at either the chromosomal or plasmid level.

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