Food and human gut as reservoirs of transferable antibiotic resistance encoding genes

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue JUN, 2013, Pages

  Rolain, Jean Marc ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; GLYCOPEPTIDE; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; POLYPEPTIDE; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; STREPTOGRAMIN DERIVATIVE; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; AQUACULTURE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; FOOD CHAIN; GENE; GENE TRANSFER; GENOMICS; INTESTINE FLORA; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; RESISTOME; REVIEW; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84884230087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00173     Document Type: Review

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