Abstract

Strains of bacteria resistant to antibiotics, particularly those that are multiresistant, are an increasing major health care problem around the world. It is now abundantly clear that both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria are able to meet the evolutionary challenge of combating antimicrobial chemotherapy, often by acquiring preexisting resistance determinants from the bacterial gene pool.

Keywords

Mobile genetic elementsAcinetobacter baumanniiEnterococcus faeciumBiologyAntibiotic resistanceMicrobiologyPseudomonas aeruginosaHorizontal gene transferKlebsiella pneumoniaePlasmidStaphylococcus aureusBacteriaAntimicrobialEscherichia coliTransposable elementEnterococcusAntibioticsAcinetobacterGeneticsGeneGenome

MeSH Terms

Anti-Bacterial AgentsBacteriaBacterial InfectionsBiological EvolutionDNA Transposable ElementsDrug ResistanceBacterialGene TransferHorizontal

Affiliated Institutions

Related Publications

Publication Info

Year
2018
Type
review
Volume
31
Issue
4
Citations
2248
Access
Closed

External Links

Download PDF (Free) View on DOI.org PubMed Semantic Scholar

Social Impact

Altmetric
PlumX Metrics

Social media, news, blog, policy document mentions

Citation Metrics

2248
OpenAlex
73
Influential

Cite This

Sally R. Partridge, Stephen M. Kwong, Neville Firth et al. (2018). Mobile Genetic Elements Associated with Antimicrobial Resistance. Clinical Microbiology Reviews , 31 (4) . https://doi.org/10.1128/cmr.00088-17

Identifiers

DOI
10.1128/cmr.00088-17
PMID
30068738
PMCID
PMC6148190

Data Quality

Data completeness: 86%