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Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment.
This book explores the role that environmental distribution of antimicrobial resistance genes and antibiotics plays in ecosystem and human health. The text features a multi-disciplinary framework that connects microbiology, environmental toxicology, and chemistry to assess human and ecological risk...
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| Format: | e-Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicester :
John Wiley & Sons,
2012.
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| Online Access: | Full-text access View in OPAC |
| Summary: | This book explores the role that environmental distribution of antimicrobial resistance genes and antibiotics plays in ecosystem and human health. The text features a multi-disciplinary framework that connects microbiology, environmental toxicology, and chemistry to assess human and ecological risk associated with exposure to antibiotics or antibiotic resistance genes as environmental contaminants. It also considers alternate uses and functions for antimicrobial compounds other than those intended for medicinal purposes in humans, animals, and fish. Recognizing the connectivity between overlap. |
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| Item Description: | Chapter 27: Use of Veterinary Antibacterial Agents in Europe and the United States. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (634 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781118156216 1118156218 9781118156247 1118156242 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/9781118156247 |