Antibiotic resistance and the environment - There and back again: Science & Society series on Science and Drugs

EMBO Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 740-744

  Berkner, Silvia ^a   Konradi, Sabine ^a   Schönfeld, Jens ^a  

^a UMWELTBUNDESAMT   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; BIOCIDE; CIPROFLOXACIN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; HEAVY METAL; MACROLIDE; MESSENGER RNA; QUINOLONE; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; TRIMETHOPRIM; WATER; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOAVAILABILITY; CROSS RESISTANCE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENE CLUSTER; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INCINERATION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; MUTATION RATE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SLUDGE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VACCINATION; VETERINARY MEDICINE; VIRUS INFECTION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS;

EID: 84903745506     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/embr.201438978     Document Type: Article

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