Excerpt of product info
| Product title : | Evidence for the circulation of antimicrobial resistant strains and genes in nature and especially between humans and animals |
| Author(s) : | M. Wooldridge |
Summary :The concern over antibiotic-resistant bacteria producing human infections that are difficult to treat has led to a proliferation of studies in recent years investigating resistance in livestock, food products, the environment and people, as well as in the mechanisms of transfer of the genetic elements of resistance between bacteria, and the routes, or risk pathways, by which the spread of resistance might occur. The possibility of transfer of resistant genetic elements between bacteria in mixed populations adds many additional and complex potential routes of spread. There is now considerable evidence that transfer of antimicrobial resistance from food-producing animals to humans directly via the food chain is a likely route of spread. The application of animal wastes to farmland and subsequent leaching into watercourses has also been shown to lead to many potential, but less well-documented, pathways for spread.
Keywords
Antibiotic resistance – Environmental contamination – Food contamination – Risk pathway – Zoonotic infection.
| |