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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