Genetics of Acquired Antimicrobial Resistance in Animal and Zoonotic Pathogens

• Main Author: Michel Stanislas Zygmunt (auth)
• Other Authors: Benoit Doublet (auth), Axel Cloeckaert (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2018
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Microbiology (non-medical); mutation; Antimicrobial resistance gene; Integron; integrative element; plasmid; resistome; food-producing animal; pet; One Health
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Development and spread of antimicrobial resistance is the result of an evolutionary process by which microorganisms adapt to antibiotics through several mechanisms including alteration of drug target by mutation and horizontal transfer of resistance genes. The concomitant occurrence of independent a...