Article
Antibiotic-selective environments.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 1 Aug 1998
Baquero F, Negri M C, Morosini M I, Blázquez J
Abstract excerpt
The evolution and spread of antibiotic resistance depends on the antibiotic pressure exerted in the microbial environment. Selective effects occur in selective compartments, where particular antibiotic concentrations result in a differential growth rate of resistant bacterial variants. This may h...
Topics
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Animals
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Bacteria
- Biological Evolution
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Humans
- Mutation
- Selection, Genetic
- beta-Lactamases