Reply to Partridge et al.: Complementary bioinformatics and experimental approaches to investigate the transfer of AMR genes

Affiliations

• ¹ Environmental Microbiome Engineering and Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
• ² Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
• ³ Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115.
• ⁴ Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139.
• ⁵ Department of Microbial Ecology, Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
• ⁶ Environmental Microbiome Engineering and Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; zhangt@hku.hk.