Agrichemicals and antibiotics in combination increase antibiotic resistance evolution

Antibiotic resistance in our pathogens is medicine’s climate change: caused by human activity, and resulting in more extreme outcomes. Resistance emerges in microbial populations when antibiotics act on phenotypic variance within the population. This can arise from either genotypic diversity (result...

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Main Authors: Brigitta Kurenbach, Amy M. Hill, William Godsoe, Sophie van Hamelsveld, Jack A. Heinemann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2018-10-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/5801.pdf