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What is Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment: Keen/Antimicrobial Resistance about?

Examines effects of the environmental distribution of antimicrobial resistance genes on human health and the ecosystem Resistance genes are everywhere in nature?in pathogens, commensals, and environmental microorganisms. This contributed work shows how the environment plays a pivotal role in the development of antimicrobial resistance traits in bacteria and the distribution of resistant microbial species, resistant genetic material, and antibiotic compounds. Readers will discover the impact of the distribution in the environment of antimicrobial resistance genes and antibiotics on both the ecosystem and human and animal health. Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment is divided into four parts: Part I, Sources, including ecological and clinical consequences of antibiotic resistance by environmental microbes Part II, Fate, including strategies to assess and minimize the biological risk of antibiotic resistance in the environment Part III, Antimicrobial Substances and Resistance, including antibiotics in the aquatic environment Part IV, Effects and Risks, including the effect of antimicrobials used for non-human purposes on human health Recognizing the intricate links among overl

Who reads Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment: Keen/Antimicrobial Resistance?

Author

Keen, Patricia L. (editor);Montforts, Mark H. M. M. (editor)

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781283401081

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Technology, Biology