Monday, 30 September 2013, 18:00, Staff Lounge
An assault on your insides?
Assessing the causes of growing resistance to antibiotics
Kristoffer Forslund considers the latest research and offers some comments, followed by open discussion.
Recommended reading
Forsberg, K. J., et al. (2012). "The shared antibiotic resistome of soil bacteria and human pathogens." Science 337(6098): 1107-1111. Europe PMC
Gillings, M. R. (2013). "Evolutionary consequences of antibiotic use for the resistome, mobilome and microbial pangenome." Front Microbiol 4: 4. Europe PMC
Perry, J. A. and G. D. Wright (2013). "The antibiotic resistance "mobilome": searching for the link between environment and clinic." Front Microbiol 4: 138. Europe PMC
Schmieder, R. and R. Edwards (2012). "Insights into antibiotic resistance through metagenomic approaches." Future Microbiol 7(1): 73-89. Europe PMC
Wright, G. D. (2007). "The antibiotic resistome: the nexus of chemical and genetic diversity." Nat Rev Microbiol 5(3): 175-186. Europe PMC