Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, April 22nd, 2008
"We also found that the bla(CTX-M)s are descended from a common ancestor that was incorporated in ancient times into the chromosome of the ancestor of Kluyvera species through horizontal transfer. Considerable sequence divergence has occurred among the descendents of that ancestral gene sequence since that gene was inserted," wrote M. Barlow and colleagues.
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