Pediatric Fecal Microbiota Harbor Diverse and Novel Antibiotic Resistance Genes

Aimée M. Moore; Sanket Patel; Kevin J. Forsberg; Bin Wang; Gayle Bentley; Yasmin Razia; Xuan Qin; Phillip I. Tarr; Gautam Dantas

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0078822

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Pediatric Fecal Microbiota Harbor Diverse and Novel Antibiotic Resistance Genes

Aimée M. Moore,

Affiliations Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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Sanket Patel,

Affiliations Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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Kevin J. Forsberg,

Affiliation Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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Bin Wang,

Affiliations Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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Gayle Bentley,

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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Yasmin Razia,

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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Xuan Qin,

Affiliations Department of Microbiology, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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Phillip I. Tarr,

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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Gautam Dantas

* E-mail: Dantas@wustl.edu

Affiliations Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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Pediatric Fecal Microbiota Harbor Diverse and Novel Antibiotic Resistance Genes

Aimée M. Moore,
Sanket Patel,
Kevin J. Forsberg,
Bin Wang,
Gayle Bentley,
Yasmin Razia,
Xuan Qin,
Phillip I. Tarr,
Gautam Dantas

Published: November 13, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0078822

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