A newly discovered Bacteroides conjugative transposon CTnGERM1, contains genes also found in gram-positive bacteria

Research has been conducted on antibiotic resistance genes in human colonic Bacteroides strains. The authors demonstrate that the ermG gene is carried on the integrated conjugative transposon CTn which differes from CTnERL and CTnDOT and may have entered Bactroides species after the CTnERL- and CTnDOT-type elements, and that the gram-positive bacteria could have been the origin of conjugative transposon CTnGERM1 whic seems to be the part of CTn family.