The multiple roles of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in nature

• Päätekijä: Fiona Walsh (auth)
• Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen Kirjan osa
• Kieli: englanti
• Julkaistu: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Sarja: Frontiers Research Topics
• Aiheet: Microbiology (non-medical); Water; environment; Microbiology; Plasmids; Soil; mobile elements; risk; human; Standards
• Linkit: 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...