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Antibiotics and common antibacterial biocides stimulate horizontal transfer of resistance at low concentrations

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Antibiotic tolerance facilitates the evolution of resistance

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Untreated urban waste contaminates Indian river sediments with resistance genes to last resort antibiotics

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Effect of different biochars on antibiotic resistance genes and bacterial community during chicken manure composting

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Water Disinfection Byproducts Induce Antibiotic Resistance-Role of Environmental Pollutants in Resistance Phenomena

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Subinhibitory Concentrations of Disinfectants Promote the Horizontal Transfer of Multidrug Resistance Genes within and across Genera

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A Fast and Practical Yeast Transformation Method Mediated by Escherichia coli Based on a Trans-Kingdom Conjugal Transfer System: Just Mix Two Cultures and Wait One Hour

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Antibiotics as a selective driver for conjugation dynamics

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Co-occurrence of resistance genes to antibiotics, biocides and metals reveals novel insights into their co-selection potential

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Antibiotic Resistome and Its Association with Bacterial Communities during Sewage Sludge Composting

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Identification and Composition of Emerging Quaternary Ammonium Compounds in Municipal Sewage Sludge in China

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Using the class 1 integron-integrase gene as a proxy for anthropogenic pollution

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An Ionic Liquid Facilitates the Proliferation of Antibiotic Resistance Genes Mediated by Class I Integrons

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Analysis of quaternary ammonium compounds in urban stormwater samples

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Nanoalumina promotes the horizontal transfer of multiresistance genes mediated by plasmids across genera

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Impacts of anthropogenic activity on the ecology of class 1 integrons and integron-associated genes in the environment

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Quaternary Ammonium Compounds in Urban Estuarine Sediment Environments - A Class of Contaminants in Need of Increased Attention?

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Does the Wide Use of Quaternary Ammonium Compounds Enhance the Selection and Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance and Thus Threaten Our Health?

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Characterization of a New Metallo- -Lactamase Gene, blaNDM-1, and a Novel Erythromycin Esterase Gene Carried on a Unique Genetic Structure in Klebsiella pneumoniae Sequence Type 14 from India

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Evidence for dynamic exchange ofqac gene cassettes between class 1 integrons and other integrons in freshwater biofilms

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Gene cassettes encoding resistance to quaternary ammonium compounds: a role in the origin of clinical class 1 integrons?

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