Pseudomonas Project PRJNA490067

Project Title Pseudomonas protegens strain:pf5 Genome sequencing
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Project Accession PRJNA490067
Organism Name Pseudomonas protegens
Project Description Antibiotics can disseminate into the environment and persist at sub-inhibitory concentrations. It is not known what effect such low levels of pollution might have on environmental organisms. Here we have shown that environmental levels of antibiotics can rapidly fix a mutation in an environmental bacterium which correlates with an eight-fold increase in antibiotic resistance. This shows that selection can be driven by low concentrations of antibiotics and suggests that similar selection events could be occurring at a high frequency in all environmental bacteria, disrupting normal microbial processes and contributing to the global problem of antibiotic resistance.
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