Insects represent a link between food animal farms and the urban environment for antibiotic resistance traits

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3562-3567

  Zurek, Ludek ^a   Ghosh, Anuradha ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; URBAN PLANNING;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL RESISTANCE; HORIZONTAL TRANSFER; INSECT MANAGEMENT; RESISTANT BACTERIA; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

ANTIBIOTICS;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; HUMAN; INSECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVESTOCK; MICROBIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; INSECTS; LIVESTOCK; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84901305742     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00600-14     Document Type: Short Survey

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