Into the Wild: Dissemination of Antibiotic Resistance Determinants via a Species Recovery Program

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Power, Michelle L ^a   Emery, Samantha ^a   Gillings, Michael R ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE CASSETTE; INTEGRON; INTESTINE FLORA; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PETROGALE PENICILLATA; POPULATION RECOVERY; WILD SPECIES;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FECES; INTEGRONS; MACROPODIDAE; MICROBIOTA;

EID: 84878067996     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063017     Document Type: Article

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