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  "id": 14859384,
  "title": "Antibiotic inhibition uncouples growth from horizontal gene transfer",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/15/antibiotic-inhibition-uncouples-growth-from-horizontal-gene-transfer",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-15T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.14.759178v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Conjugative plasmids often encode resistance to multiple antibiotics, allowing a single mobile genetic element to transfer across diverse selective environments. This co-selection is often invoked to explain the persistence and spread of multidrug resistance, with antibiotic resistance genes encoded on the same plasmid frequently treated as equivalent routes of plasmid maintenance. However,…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}