The role of interspecies recombinations in the evolution of antibiotic resistant pneumococci
Joshua C D'Aeth, Mark PG van der Linden, Lesley McGee, Herminia de LENCASTRE, Paul Turner, Jae-Hoon Song, Stephanie W. Lo, Rebecca A. Gladstone, Raquel Sá‐Leão, Kwan Soo Ko, William Paul Hanage, Robert F. Breiman, Bernard Beall, Stephen D. Bentley, Nicholas J. Croucher, , David William Cleary
The paper reconstructs the evolutionary histories of antibiotic-resistant pneumococcal lineages PMEN3 and PMEN9, showing how interspecies recombination contributes to antibiotic resistance and serotype switching.
eLife · Jul 14, 2021Peer-reviewedGenomics