The double life of antibiotics
Yap, M.-N.F.
Missouri Medicine 110(4): 320-324
2013
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-6620 PMID: 24003650 Document Number: 665357
Antibiotic resistance is a persistent health care problem worldwide. Evidence for the negative consequences of subtherapeutic feeding in livestock production has been mounting while the antibiotic pipeline is drying up. In recent years, there has been a paradigm shift in our perception of antibiotics. Apart from its roles in self-defense, antibiotics also serve as inter-microbial signaling molecules, regulators of gene expression, microbial food sources, and as mediators of host immune response.
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