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Table 5 Rates of transferred segments from the ingested GM-diet into blood or bacterial samples of rats after 90 days

From: Horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance genes into microflora and blood cells in rats fed on GM-diet

Feeding period

Transferred segments

Blood samples

Bacterial samples

No. of samples

No. of  samples with transferred segments

Rate of transfer (%)

Average of transfer (%)

No. of samples

No. of samples with transferred segments

Rate of transfer (%)

Average of transfer (%)

GM-diet for 90 days

NPTII (173 bp)

9

8

88.88

85,18

10

4

40

72.59

aadA (284 bp)

9

6

66.66

10

10

100.00

CaMV-P*

9

9

100.00

9

7

77.77

  1. CaMV-P*: Two segments from the CaMV promoter were used; Cf3-Cr4 (123 bp) was amplified in blood and P-35S (195 bp) was amplified in Bacteria