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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nicholas Waglechner, Gerard D. Wright
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-09-01
Series:BMC Biology
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12915-017-0423-1