Resistance in the environment

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 311-320

  Kümmerer, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ecotoxicity; Environmental microbiology; Gene transfer; Xenobiotics

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFALOTIN; CEFUROXIME; CHLORTETRACYCLINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN A; DISINFECTANT AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; GROUND WATER; GROWTH PROMOTOR; MACROLIDE; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORDIFLOXACIN; OXYTETRACYCLINE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PIPERACILLIN; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; ROXITHROMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; SULFONAMIDE; SURFACE WATER; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN; VIRGINIAMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CAMPYLOBACTER; CROSS RESISTANCE; ECOTOXICITY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC RESISTANCE; HEALTH HAZARD; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; MEDICINE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PISCICULTURE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SEDIMENT; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; SOIL; SOIL MICROFLORA; STREPTOMYCES; VETERINARY MEDICINE; WASTE WATER;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HUMANS; MEDICAL WASTE; SEWAGE; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 4444241488     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkh325     Document Type: Review

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