Pseudomonas Project PRJNA490053
| Project Title | Sub-inhibitory concentrations of kanamycin fix fusA mutation in an environmental Pseudomonas sp. |
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| Project Accession | PRJNA490053 |
| 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 a four-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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Biosamples associated with this project
| Link | 2 BioSample(s) |