> “Microbes are like an overlaying blanket on everything. They're not only in our guts, but also on our skin, our furniture, and in our food and water,” Bornbus

> “Microbes are like an overlaying blanket on everything. They're not only in our guts, but also on our skin, our furniture, and in our food and water,” Bornbusch said. “They're everywhere, all the time, and they are easily transmitted between environments.” Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) allows bacteria to exchange their genetic materials (including antibiotic resistance genes, ARGs) among diverse species (Le Roux and Blokesch, 2018), greatly fostering collaboration among bacterial population in MDR development. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.01933/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2019.0193... Check out this visualisation of the molecular apparatus for bacterial conjugation, viewed from the outer membrane. One bacterium literally injects DNA into a neighbouring bacterium! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihlFqOK5cZM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihlFqOK5cZM