Sequencing tracks animal-to-human transmission of bacterial pathogens

... penicillin-like antibiotic methicillin. Drug-resistant bacterial infections pose a significant challenge to public health and may have severe and sometimes fatal consequences. As the costs of whole genome sequencing methods continue to plummet and ...

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