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    Front Microbiol. 2011;2:203. Epub 2011 Sep 28.

    Acquired antibiotic resistance genes: an overview.

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    Laboratory for Zoonoses and Environmental Microbiology, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment Utrecht, Netherlands.

    Abstract

    In this review an overview is given on antibiotic resistance (AR) mechanisms with special attentions to the AR genes described so far preceded by a short introduction on the discovery and mode of action of the different classes of antibiotics. As this review is only dealing with acquired resistance, attention is also paid to mobile genetic elements such as plasmids, transposons, and integrons, which are associated with AR genes, and involved in the dispersal of antimicrobial determinants between different bacteria.

    PMID:
    22046172
    [PubMed]
    PMCID:
    PMC3202223
    Free PMC Article

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