Antibiotic resistance in probiotic bacteria

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Gueimonde, Miguel ^a   Sánchez, Borja ^a   de los Reyes Gavilán, Clara G ^a   Margolles, Abelardo ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY OF DAIRY PRODUCTS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Bacillus; Bifidobacterium; Lactobacillus; Probiotics

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; BETA LACTAMASE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DALFOPRISTIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; LINCOSAMIDE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN; OXAZOLIDINONE DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PLEUROMUTILIN; PROBIOTIC AGENT; QUINUPRISTIN; RIFAMPICIN; RNA 23S; SPECTINOMYCIN; STREPTOGRAMIN DERIVATIVE; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL GENE; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LACTOBACILLUS; NONHUMAN; SHORT SURVEY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BIFIDOBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOBACILLUS;

EID: 84885361489     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00202     Document Type: Short Survey

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