Bacteriophage invasion, MCR-1 is older than thought, and new nucleotides - Microbial Minutes

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Nguyen S., et. al. Bacteriophage transcytosis provides a mechanism to cross epithelial cell layers. mBio. Nov 2017. http://mbio.asm.org/content/8/6/e01874-17.full.pdf+html

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