Antibiotics in Feed Induce Prophages in Swine Fecal Microbiomes

Antibiotics in Feed Induce Prophages in Swine Fecal Microbiomes

ABSTRACT 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; ther...

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Main Authors: Heather K. Allen, Torey Looft, Darrell O. Bayles, Samuel Humphrey, Uri Y. Levine, David Alt, Thaddeus B. Stanton
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2011
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Microbiology
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/32de31eb94884e2bb4f97b8da22bbac0
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