“It is only with more knowledge on antibiotic resistance dissemination – from the environment to pathogens in the clinic and leading to antibiotic treatment failure rates – that we will be able to produce more sustainable antibiotic drugs,” said Joseph Nesme of the Université de Lyon in France, one of the researchers.
The read the study, “Large-scale metagenomic-based study of antibiotic resistance in the environment,” in Current Biology, click here.