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The role of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in nature.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Dec 2009
Aminov Rustam I
Abstract excerpt
Investigations of antibiotic resistance from an environmental prospective shed new light on a problem that was traditionally confined to a subset of clinically relevant antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens. It is clear that the environmental microbiota, even in apparently antibiotic-free environments, possess an enormous number and diversity of antibiotic resistance genes, some of which are very similar to...
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