The multiple roles of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in nature

• Main Author: Fiona Walsh (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Microbiology (non-medical); Water; environment; Microbiology; Plasmids; Soil; mobile elements; risk; human; Standards
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Antibiotics and antibiotic resistance have most commonly been viewed in the context of human use and effects. However, both have co-existed in nature for millennia. Recently the roles of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes have started to be discussed in terms of functions other than bacteri...