Gut Microbes With Resistance Genes Hitchhike Home With Travelers

Travelers returning home from foreign destinations are bringing back more than tourist souvenirs and memories. Their guts may be harboring new microbial hitchhikers, some of them bearing gene sequences that arm them against antibiotics. These new findings, published online June 7 in Genome Medicine, stand out because the researchers captured the fecal microbiome profile of the travelers before they departed and […]
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