Non-responder phenotype reveals apparent microbiome-wide antibiotic tolerance in the murine gut

Diener, Hoge et al. show that a third of mice exhibit tolerance to a high dose of the β-lactam antibiotic cefoperazone, independent of antibiotic treatment duration or dietary phytochemical amendment. They find that non-responder microbiota upregulates antimicrobial tolerance genes and downregulates...

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Main Authors: Christian Diener, Anna C. H. Hoge, Sean M. Kearney, Ulrike Kusebauch, Sushmita Patwardhan, Robert L. Moritz, Susan E. Erdman, Sean M. Gibbons
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-03-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01841-8