jordan lin

Abstract Bacterial pathogens adapt rapidly to clinical and within-host selective pressures1. Insertion sequences (IS) are transposable elements that can contribute to pathogenic adaptation2, but their activity and consequences in contemporary clinical populations are not well characterized. Here, combining large-scale genomic surveys with long-read sequencing of clinical isolates and longitudinal gut metagenomes, we quantify pathogen IS dynamics from global patterns to within-host evolution.

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