Droplet-based high-throughput cultivation for accurate screening of antibiotic resistant gut microbes

Traditional cultivation approaches in microbiology are labor-intensive, low-throughput, and yield biased sampling of environmental microbes due to ecological and evolutionary factors. New strategies are needed for ample representation of rare taxa and slow-growers that are often outcompeted by fast-...

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Main Authors: William J Watterson, Melikhan Tanyeri, Andrea R Watson, Candace M Cham, Yue Shan, Eugene B Chang, A Murat Eren, Savaş Tay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2020-06-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/56998