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Medical Definition of Antibiotic resistance gene
1. Genes in a microorganism which confer resistance to antibiotics, for example by coding for enzymes which destroy it, by coding for surface proteins which prevent it from entering the microorganism, or by being a mutant form of the antibiotic's target so that it can ignore it. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antibiotic Resistance Gene
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