Impact of veterinary antibiotics on plasmid-encoded antibiotic resistance transfer.

Otávio Hallal Ferreira Raro Laurent PoirelMaurine ToccoPatrice Nordmann

Published in: The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy (2023)

We showed here that some antibiotics used in veterinary medicine may induce transfer of plasmid-encoded resistance and therefore may contribute to the worldwide spread of antibiotic resistance genes.

Keyphrases

antibiotic resistance genes
escherichia coli
wastewater treatment
microbial community
crispr cas
anaerobic digestion