The multifaceted roles of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in nature

Antibiotics are chemotherapeutic agents, which have been a very powerful tool in the clinical management of bacterial diseases since the 1940s. However, benefits offered by these magic bullets have been substantially lost in subsequent days following the widespread emergence and dissemination of ant...

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Main Authors: Saswati eSengupta, Madhab Kumar Chattopadhyay, Hans-Peter eGrossart
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2013.00047/full