Bacteriophages as vehicles for antibiotic resistance genes in the environment

Jose Luis Balcazar

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1004219

Bacteriophages as vehicles for antibiotic resistance genes in the environment

PLoS Pathog. 2014 Jul 31;10(7):e1004219. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004219. eCollection 2014 Jul.

Author

Jose Luis Balcazar¹

Affiliation

¹ Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), Scientific and Technological Park of the University of Girona, Girona, Spain.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology*
Bacteria / drug effects*
Bacteriophages / genetics*
Drug Resistance, Bacterial / genetics*
Environmental Microbiology*
Genes, Bacterial / genetics*
Humans
Transduction, Genetic*

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents

Grants and funding

JLB acknowledges the Ramon y Cajal research fellowship (RYC-2011-08154) from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.