date:Nov 14, 2018
animal husbandry, where they can promote the development and propagation of resistant germs, for example in the intestines of farm animals.
Not only these germs, but also traces of these antibiotics are excreted, eventually ending up on the fields through organic fertilizers such as manure. Smalla's conclusion: The results of the extensive investigations clearly show that a considerable variety of transferable plasmids, that is, non-chromosomal genetic carriers in bacteria, with resistance gen