Expanding the soil antibiotic resistome: exploring environmental diversity

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 481-489

  D'Costa, Vanessa M ^a   Griffiths, Emma ^a   Wright, Gerard D ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM; DALFOPRISTIN; MIKAMYCIN B; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; DATA BASE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SOIL MICROFLORA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 35748929920     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2007.08.009     Document Type: Review

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