Reducing the Consumption of Antibiotics: Would That Be Enough to Slow Down the Dissemination of Resistances in the Downstream Environment?

Christophe Merlin

doi:10.3389/fmicb.2020.00033

Reducing the Consumption of Antibiotics: Would That Be Enough to Slow Down the Dissemination of Resistances in the Downstream Environment?

Front Microbiol. 2020 Jan 28;11:33. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00033. eCollection 2020.

Author

Christophe Merlin¹

Affiliation

¹ Université de Lorraine, CNRS, LCPME, Nancy, France.

No abstract available

Keywords: antibiotic consumption; antibiotic resistance dissemination; collateral antibiotic effect; downstream environment; resistance gene transfer.