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The Microbes Fight Back: Antibiotic Resistance
By
Laura Bowater
Laura Bowater
University of East Anglia, UK
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Paperback ISBN:
978-1-78262-167-6
PDF ISBN:
978-1-78262-364-9
EPUB ISBN:
978-1-78801-411-3
Special Collection:
RSC Popular Science eBook Collection
Product Type:
Popular Science
No. of Pages:
289
Publication date:
16 Dec 2016
Book Chapter
Chapter 5: What is Antibiotic Resistance?
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Published:16 Dec 2016
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Special Collection: RSC Popular Science eBook CollectionProduct Type: Popular Science
Page range:
182 - 216
Citation
The Microbes Fight Back: Antibiotic Resistance, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016, ch. 5, pp. 182-216.
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This chapter describes how antibiotic resistance is a bacterium's natural response to antibiotic production. It describes the natural role of antibiotics used in microbial communities and it provides a brief description of the different metabolic mechanisms used by microbes to provide antibiotic resistance.
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