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Antimicrobial Resistance: Epidemiology

  1. Thomas F O’Brien

Published Online: 29 JAN 2003

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002002

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O’Brien, T. F. 2003. Antimicrobial Resistance: Epidemiology. eLS. .

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  1. Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts, USA

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  1. Published Online: 29 JAN 2003
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Abstract

Antimicrobial resistance advances as epidemics of emerged resistance genes variably linked within a variety of genetic elements that spread through interconnecting bacterial populations of antimicrobial-exposed people, animals and places.

Keywords:

  • antimicrobial;
  • resistance;
  • selection;
  • bacterial populations;
  • plasmids
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