Genomic interplay in bacterial communities: implications for growth promoting practices in animal husbandry.

ABSTRACT: The discovery of antibiotics heralded the start of a "Golden Age" in the history of medicine. Over the years, the use of antibiotics extended beyond medical practice into animal husbandry, aquaculture and agriculture. Now, however, we face the worldwide threat of diseases caused by pathogenic bacteria that are resistant to all existing major classes of antibiotic, reflecting the possibility of an end to the antibiotic era. The seriousness of the threat is underscored by the severely limited production of new classes of antibiotics. Evolution of bacteria resistant to multiple antibiotics results from the inherent genetic capability that bacteria have to adapt rapidly to changing environmental conditions. Consequently, under antibiotic selection pressures, bacteria have acquired resistance t

SUBMITTER: Roy Chowdhury P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4129626 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature