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Antimicrobial resistance makes pathogenic bacteria hard to control, but little is known about the general processes of resistance gain or loss. Here, we compared distinct S. typhimurium DT104 strains resistant to zero, two, five, or more of the tested antimicrobials. We found that common resistance phenotypes could be encoded by distinct genes, on SGI-1 or plasmid. We also demonstrated close clonality among all the tested non-resistant and differently resistant DT104 strains, demonstrating dynamic acquisition or loss (by total deletion or gradual decaying of multi-drug resistance gene clusters) of the genetic traits. These findings reflect convergent processes to make the bacteria resistant to multiple antimicrobials by acquiring the needed traits from stochastically available origins. When the antimicrobial stress is absent, the resistance genes may be dropped off quickly, so the bacteria can save the cost for maintaining unneeded genes. Therefore, this work reiterates the importance of strictly controlled use of antimicrobials.
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This study was funded by a grant of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC31600001), a National Postdoctoral Fellowship of China (2016M600266), and an Alberta Innovates Health Solutions (AIHS) Postdoctoral Fellowship of Canada to LT; Genome Canada grant 256177 to CP; and grants of the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC81030029, 81271786, 81671980, and 81871623) to SLL.
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Tang, L., Zhu, SL., Fang, X. et al. Distinct evolutionary origins of common multi-drug resistance phenotypes in Salmonella typhimurium DT104: a convergent process for adaptation under stress. Mol Genet Genomics 294, 597–605 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00438-019-01531-5
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