Identification of discriminatory antibiotic resistance genes among environmental resistomes using extremely randomized tree algorithm

The interconnectivities of built and natural environments can serve as conduits for the proliferation and dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs). Several studies have compared the broad spectrum of ARGs (i.e., "resistomes") in various environmental compartments, but there is a need to identify unique ARG occurrence patterns (i.e., "discriminatory ARGs"), characteristic of each environment. Such an approach will help to identify...