Genomic resistance in historical clinical isolates increased in frequency and mobility after the age of antibiotics

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Abstract

By analysing historic and modern NCTC bacterial genome data spanning 1885–2018, we reveal that genomic resistance existed before clinical usage, rose thereafter and increasingly associates with mobile genetic elements.

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