Antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the guts of insects feeding on plants: prospects for discovering plant-derived antibiotics

BACKGROUND: Although plants produce many secondary metabolites, currently none of these are commercial antibiotics. Insects feeding on specific plants can harbour bacterial strains resistant to known antibiotics suggesting that compounds in the plant have stimulated resistance development. We sought...

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Autores principales: Ignasiak, Katarzyna, Maxwell, Anthony
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5709835/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29191163
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12866-017-1133-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5709835/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29191163
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12866-017-1133-0

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