Genomic interplay in bacterial communities: Implications for growth promoting practices in animal husbandry

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Chowdhury, Piklu Roy ^a,b   McKinnon, Jessica ^a   Wyrsch, Ethan ^a   Hammond, Jeffrey M ^b   Charles, Ian G ^a   Djordjevic, Steven P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial growth promotion; Bacterial genomes; Complex resistance loci; Lateral gene transfer; Multi drug resistance

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; GROWTH PROMOTOR; INTEGRASE; KANAMYCIN; METRONIDAZOLE; NEOMYCIN; STREPTOMYCIN; SULFATHIAZOLE; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; DNA REPAIR; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMIC ISLAND; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; INTEGRON; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOME; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84987927036     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00394     Document Type: Review

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