Assessing the Risk of Antibiotic Resistance Transmission from the Environment to Humans: Non-Direct Proportionality between Abundance and Risk

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 173-181

  Manaia, Célia M ^a  

^a CBQF CENTRO DE BIOTECNOLOGIA E QUÍMICA FINA LABORATÓRIO ASSOCIADO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

contaminant resistome; infective dose; limit of quantification; vector bacteria

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; BACTERIUM; DRUG EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENT; GENETICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENT; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 85008191264     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2016.11.014     Document Type: Review

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