Mechanisms of Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance and Lessons Learned from Environmental Tetracycline-Resistant Bacteria

Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 93-121

  Roberts, Marilyn C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial antibiotic resistance, tetracycline resistant; Conjugative gene exchange, in bacterial evolution; tet genes from metagenomic DNA, ecosystem types

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887257653     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118156247.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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