ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2021
Environmental Biofilms as Reservoirs for Antimicrobial Resistance.
Review in Frontiers in microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
49 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
- The plastisphere paradox: microplastics as engines of antimicrobial resistance and hosts for polymer degraders.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2026Review
- Molecular and environmental drivers of antimicrobial resistance: global epidemiology, resistome dynamics, and one health strategies.Archives of microbiology · 2026Review
- Diversity and Antimicrobial Resistance Profiles of ESBL-ProducingPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterization ofBiology · 2026Article
- The missing thread of One Health efforts: improper drug disposal as an overlooked driver of antimicrobial resistance.mSphere · 2026Review
- Environmental Biofilms in Livestock Production Systems: Reservoirs of Pathogens and Antimicrobial Resistance.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Nanotechnology in Dermatology: A Comprehensive Narrative Review of Performance, Safety, and Clinical Translation.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Comparative Biofilmomics of Antimicrobial-ResistantAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Review
- Hydrodynamics Shape Antibiotic Resistance in Wastewater-Impacted River Biofilms.Microbial ecology · 2026Article
- Antimicrobial Peptides as Next-Generation Disinfectants: Tackling Biocide and Antimicrobial Resistance in Hospital Hygiene - A Narrative Review.Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins · 2026Review
- Unraveling the activity of phage-carrying antibiotic resistance genes in constructed wetlands.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026Article
- Comprehensive resistome and antibiotic profiling in wastewater and biosolids: a case study.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Whole-Genome Analysis ofAntibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Sewage intrusion into drinking water distribution systems: implications for water resource management.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2025Review
- A Practical Framework for Environmental Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring in Freshwater Ecosystems.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- On the Difficulty to Detect Carbapenem Resistance in the Environment: Characterisation of Escherichia coli With Reduced Carbapenem Susceptibility Isolated in a French River.Environmental microbiology reports · 2025Article
- The Role of Water as a Reservoir for Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Biocides as drivers of antibiotic resistance: A critical review of environmental implications and public health risks.Environmental science and ecotechnology · 2025Review
- High antagonistic activity and antibiotic resistance of flavobacteria of polar microbial freshwater mats on King George Island in maritime Antarctica.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
Characterizing the response of microbial communities to a range of antibiotic concentrations is one of the strategies used to understand the impact of antibiotic resistance. Many studies have described the occurrence and prevalence of antibiotic resistance in microbial communities from reservoirs such as hospitals, sewage, and farm feedlots, where bacteria are often exposed to high and/or constant concentrations of antibiotics. Outside of these sources, antibiotics generally occur at lower, sub-minimum inhibitory concentrations (sub-MICs). The constant exposure to low concentrations of antibiotics may serve as a chemical "cue" that drives development of antibiotic resistance. Low concentrations of antibiotics have not yet been broadly described in reservoirs outside of the aforementioned environments, nor is the transfer and dissemination of antibiotic resistant bacteria and genes within natural microbial communities fully understood. This review will thus focus on low antibiotic-concentration environmental reservoirs and mechanisms that are important in the dissemination of antibiotic resistance to help identify key knowledge gaps concerning the environmental resistome.
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