Metagenomic insights into the human gut resistome and the forces that shape it

BioEssays

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 316-329

  Forslund, Kristoffer ^a   Sunagawa, Shinichi ^a   Coelho, Luis P ^a   Bork, Peer ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agricultural growth promoters; Antibiotic resistance; Antibiotic stewardship; Antibiotics; Gut microbiome; Metagenomics; Resistome

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GENTAMICIN; TETRACYCLINE;

AGE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHINA; DENMARK; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FOOD INDUSTRY; FRANCE; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE FLORA; IRELAND; ITALY; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAWI; MALE; METAGENOMICS; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; SEX RATIO; SPAIN; SWEDEN; UNITED STATES; EVOLUTION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; METAGENOMICS;

EID: 84893760545     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201300143     Document Type: Article

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