Antibiotics and Resistance Genes: Influencing the Microbial Ecosystem in the Gut

Advances in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue , 2007, Pages 269-292

  Kazimierczak, Katarzyna A ^a   Scott, Karen P ^a  

^a ROWETT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PREBIOTIC AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG USE; ECOSYSTEM; ENTEROCOLITIS; GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE; INTESTINE FLORA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; REVIEW;

CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; INTESTINES; PROBIOTICS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 34548515956     PISSN: 00652164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2164(07)62009-7     Document Type: Review

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