Antimicrobial resistance global emergence: healthcare facilities or environmental microbiota as the most important reservoir of antibiotic resistant microorganisms?

Roberta Migliavacca; Vittorio Sambri

doi:10.4081/mm.2016.6045

Antimicrobial resistance global emergence: healthcare facilities or environmental microbiota as the most important reservoir of antibiotic resistant microorganisms?

https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2016.6045

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Vol. 31 No. 2 (2016)

Submitted: 3 June 2016
Accepted: 3 June 2016

Published: 30 June 2016

Antimicrobial resistance, reservoirs, risk of transmission

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Authors

Roberta Migliavacca
roberta.migliavacca@unipv.it
Department of Clinical, Surgical, Diagnostic and Pediatric Sciences, Unit of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, University of Pavia, Italy.
Vittorio Sambri Microbiology Unit, Romagna Local Health Unit, Pievesestina; DIMES, University of Bologna, Italy.

The ecosystems contamination caused by drugs and by their biologically active transformation products has become an emerging environmental issue: recently developed analytical and sensitive methods have allowed the detection of these pollutants in different matrices (like water, soil, sediment). [...]

Migliavacca, R., & Sambri, V. (2016). Antimicrobial resistance global emergence: healthcare facilities or environmental microbiota as the most important reservoir of antibiotic resistant microorganisms?. Microbiologia Medica, 31(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/mm.2016.6045