| Literature DB >> 24289955 |
Elisabet Marti1, Eleni Variatza1, Jose Luis Balcazar2.
Abstract
Although antibiotic resistance has become a major threat to human health worldwide, this phenomenon has been largely overlooked in studies in environmental settings. Aquatic environments may provide an ideal setting for the acquisition and dissemination of antibiotic resistance, because they are frequently impacted by anthropogenic activities. This review focuses primarily on the emergence and dissemination of antibiotic resistance in the aquatic environment, with a special emphasis on the role of antibiotic resistance genes.Entities:
Keywords: antibiotic resistance; antibiotic resistance genes; aquatic environments; bacteria; bacteriophages; mobile genetic elements
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Year: 2013 PMID： 24289955 DOI： 10.1016/j.tim.2013.11.001
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Microbiol ISSN： 0966-842X Impact factor: 17.079