Occurrence and reservoirs of antibiotic resistance genes in the environment

Reviews and Research in Medical Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 15-27

  Séveno, Nadine A ^a   Kallifidas, Dimitris ^a   Smalla, Kornelia ^a   Van Elsas, Jan Dirk ^a   Collard, Jean Marc ^a   Karagouni, Amalia D ^a   Wellington, Elizabeth M H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Antibiotics in agriculture; Environmental microbiology; Environmental resistance reservoirs; Gene transfer in nature; Horizontal gene transfer

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COTRIFAMOLE; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DRUG USE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL;

EID: 0036190332     PISSN: 0954139X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00013542-200201000-00002     Document Type: Article

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