A brief multi-disciplinary review on antimicrobial resistance in medicine and its linkage to the global environmental microbiota

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Cantas, L ^a   Shah, Syed Q A ^a   Cavaco, L M ^b   Manaia, C M ^c   Walsh, F ^d   Popowska, M ^e   Garelick, H ^f   Burgmann H ^g   Sorum H ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c CBQF CENTRO DE BIOTECNOLOGIA E QUÍMICA FINA LABORATÓRIO ASSOCIADO   (Portugal)

^d Bacteriology Agroscope Changins Was denswil   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^f MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial resistance; Environment; Human and veterinary medicine; Resistance genes; Soil; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMOXICILLIN; AVOPARCIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CARBAPENEM; CHLORAMPHENICOL; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; FLORFENICOL; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SPIRAMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TELITHROMYCIN; TYLOSIN; VIRGINIAMYCIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACTINOBACTERIA; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; AQUACULTURE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CAMPYLOBACTER; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG USE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FOOD INDUSTRY; GENE POOL; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC RESISTANCE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LISTERIA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROFLORA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PUBLIC HEALTH; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SOIL; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; VETERINARY MEDICINE; WASTE WATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84880144696     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00096     Document Type: Article

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