Antibiotic resistance gene pool and bacterial adaptation to xenobiotics in the environment

Management of Microbial Resources in the Environment

Volumn 9789400759312, Issue , 2013, Pages 387-411

  Ansari, Mohd Ikram ^a   Malik, Abdul ^a  

^a ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Antibiotics; Environmental stress; Mutation; Xenobiotics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931475945     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5931-2_15     Document Type: Chapter

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