How Should we be determining background and baseline antibiotic resistance levels in agroecosystem research?

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 420-431

  Rothrock, Michael J ^a   Keen, Patricia L ^b   Cook, Kimberly L ^a   Durso, Lisa M ^c   Franklin, Alison M ^d   Dungan, Robert S ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c USDA Agricultural Research Service Lincoln Nebraska   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEMS; HEALTH RISKS;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BASELINE LEVELS; DECISION MAKING TOOL; ECOLOGICAL HEALTH; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; POTENTIAL RISKS; RESEARCH STANDARDS; STANDARD DEFINITIONS;

ANTIBIOTICS;

AGROECOSYSTEM; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; SCIENTIST; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; RESEARCH;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; RESEARCH;

EID: 84960392078     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: 15372537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2015.06.0327     Document Type: Article

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