Acquired antibiotic resistance: Are we born with it?

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 7134-7141

  Zhang, Lu ^a   Kinkelaar, Daniel ^a,b   Huang, Ying ^a   Li, Yingli ^a,c   Li, Xiaojing ^a,d   Wang, Hua H ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Chicago Kent College of Law and Law   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL POPULATION; BREAST MILK; BREAST MILK SAMPLES; ENTEROCOCCUS SPP; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBES; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD CONSUMPTION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE CARRIER; GENE POOLS; GI TRACT; HUMAN GUTS; INFANT FOOD; INFANT FORMULA; KLEBSIELLA; MICROBIOTAS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESISTANCE GENES; SELECTIVE PRESSURE;

BACTERIA; FOOD SUPPLY; GENE TRANSFER; GENES; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ANTIBIOTICS;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIUM; DATA SET; EMERGENCE; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD CONSUMPTION; GASTROENTERITIS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; BREAST MILK; DIET; DRUG EFFECT; FOOD CONTROL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; DIET; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FORMULA; INFANT, NEWBORN; MILK, HUMAN;

EID: 82955169524     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.05087-11     Document Type: Article

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