How often are antibiotic-resistant bacteria said to "evolve" in the news?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Singh, Nina ^a   Sit, Matthew T ^a   Chung, Deanna M ^a   Lopez, Ana A ^a   Weerackoon, Ranil ^b   Yeh, Pamela J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CANADA; INDIA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MASS MEDIUM; NONHUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; DRUG EFFECTS; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CANADA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INDIA; MASS MEDIA; NEWSPAPERS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84961119161     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0150396     Document Type: Article

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