Open AccessAntimicrobial resistance global emergence: healthcare facilities or environmental microbiota as the most important reservoir of antibiotic resistant microorganisms?
Author(s) -
Roberta Migliavacca,
Vittorio Sambri
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
microbiologia medica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2280-6423
pISSN - 1120-0146
DOI - 10.4081/mm.2016.6045
Subject(s) - antibiotic resistance , microorganism , pollutant , contamination , environmental science , sediment , antibiotics , antimicrobial , resistance (ecology) , ecology , bacteria , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , genetics , paleontology
The ecosystems contamination caused by drugs and by their biologically active transformation products has become an emerging environmental issue: recently developed analytical and sensitive methods have allowed the detection of these pollutants in different matrices (like water, soil, sediment). [...