The role of interspecies recombinations in the evolution of antibiotic resistant pneumococci
Joshua C D'Aeth, Mark PG van der Linden, Lesley McGee…·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.