The antibiotic resistance "mobilome": Searching for the link between environment and clinic

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Perry, Julie A ^a,b   Wright, Gerard D ^a,b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Environmental resistome; Evolution; Horizontal gene transfer

Indexed keywords

EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE; WATER;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENE; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESISTOME; GENE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; INTEGRON; KLUYVERA; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; SOIL; STREPTOMYCES; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 84884228709     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00138     Document Type: Article

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