Low-dose antibiotics: Current status and outlook for the future

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Nosanchuk, Joshua D ^a   Lin, Jun ^b   Hunter, Robert P ^c   Aminov, Rustam I ^d  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c Parnell Pharmaceuticals   (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Environmental impact; Feed additives; Growth promotion; Immunomodulatory effect; Low dose antibiotics

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; BACITRACIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CALCIUM CHANNEL; MACROLIDE; TANNIN DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; CHEMOTHERAPY; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; EDITORIAL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION;

EID: 84907675917     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00478     Document Type: Editorial

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