The multiple roles of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in nature

• Hoofdauteur: Fiona Walsh (auth)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Reeks: Frontiers Research Topics
• Onderwerpen: Microbiology (non-medical); Water; environment; Microbiology; Plasmids; Soil; mobile elements; risk; human; Standards
• Online toegang: 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...