The soil resistome: A critical review on antibiotic resistance origins, ecology and dissemination potential in telluric bacteria

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 913-930

  Nesme, Joseph ^a   Simonet, Pascal ^a  

^a ECOLE CENTRALE DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SOIL;

BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; ECOLOGY; FUNGUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; SOIL;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ECOLOGY; FUNGI; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MICROBIOTA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84926344267     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12631     Document Type: Review

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