Pre and Post antibiotic epoch: insights into the historical spread of antimicrobial resistance
Cazares, A.; Figueroa, W.; Cazares, D.; Lima, L.; Turnbull, J. D.; McGregor, H.; Dicks, J.; Alexander, S.; Iqbal, Z.; Thomson, N.
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Plasmids are now the primary vectors of antimicrobial resistance, but our understanding of how human industrialisation of antibiotics influenced this is limited by a paucity of data predating the antibiotic era (PAE). By investigating plasmids from clinically relevant bacteria isolated between 1917 and 1954 and comparing them to modern plasmids, we captured over 100 years of evolution. We show that while all PAE plasmids were devoid of resistance genes and most never acquired them, a small minority evolved to drive the global spread of resistance to first-line and last-resort antibiotics in Gram-negative bacteria. They have evolved through complex microevolution and fusion events into a distinct group of highly recombinogenic, multi-replicon, self-transmissible plasmids that now pose the highest risk to resistance dissemination, and therefore human health. One Sentence SummaryPre-antibiotic era bacteria reveal the origin and evolution of drug-resistance vectors.
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