Journal article
Antibiotic resistance: it’s bad, but why isn’t it worse?
Abstract
Antibiotic natural products are ancient and so is resistance. Consequently, environmental bacteria harbor numerous and varied antibiotic resistance elements. Nevertheless, despite long histories of antibiotic production and exposure, environmental bacteria are not resistant to all known antibiotics. This means that there are barriers to the acquisition of a complete resistance armamentarium. The sources, distribution, and movement of resistance …
Authors
Waglechner N; Wright GD
Journal
BMC Biology, Vol. 15, No. 1,
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
December 2017
DOI
10.1186/s12915-017-0423-1
ISSN
1478-5854