Year: 2010
Type: report
Abstract: resistant bacteria can be transmitted from food-producing animals such as cattle, pigs and poultry, and the environment to humans, via the food chain. 13What is antimicrobial resistance? Definition of resistanceThe development of antimicrobial resistance can be seen as a global problem in microbial ecology and is the best-known example of a rapid adaptation of bacteria to a new ecosystem (Carattoli, 2001).Micro-organisms are ubiquitous in nature and there is a continuous exchange of genetic information between bacteria inhabiting diverse ecological niches including, humans, animals and the broader environment.Genetic exchanges, combined with the selection of partially-resistant microorganisms through continued exposure to sub-lethal doses of antibiotics, contribute to the emergence of groups of intermediate resistant and/or (clinically) resistant bacteria.The position of clones on the susceptible/intermediate/resistant continuum is generally defined on the basis of in vitro parameters, related to their ability to survive exposure to a defined concentration of an antimicrobial compound.Bacterial infections can be described as being clinically resistant if they have a low probability of responding to
Author: Safefood
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2340870426