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 ant...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2017-09-01
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Series: | BMC Biology |
Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12915-017-0423-1 |