This month's Genome Watch highlights recent studies that have characterized the reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes in the human gut microbiota.
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Chewapreecha, C. Your gut microbiota are what you eat. Nat Rev Microbiol 12, 8 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro3186
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