do you think there is a way to combat horizontal gene transfer in some bacteria?

Question: do you think there is a way to combat horizontal gene transfer in some bacteria?
- Keywords:
  bacteria,
  horizontal gene transfer
Asked by anon-231082 to Bruno Silvester on 14 Nov 2019.
- Bruno Silvester Lopes answered on 14 Nov 2019:
  
  There are therapies which are being developed that can prevent the transfer by conjugation/mating of two bacteria that have compatible plasmids. This is still at a very early stage and targeted more towards pathogens that cause hospital infections.

Question: do you think there is a way to combat horizontal gene transfer in some bacteria?