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| Title |
Investigating antibiotic resistance in non-clinical environments
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Microbiology, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00019 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Fiona Walsh |
| Abstract |
There have been many calls for more information about the natural resistome and these have also highlighted the importance of understanding the soil resistome in the preservation of antibiotics for the treatment of infections. However, to date there have been few studies which have investigated the culturable soil resistome, which highlights the difficulties faced by microbiologists in designing these experiments to produce meaningful data. The World Health Organization definition of resistance is the most fitting to non-clinical environmental studies: antimicrobial resistance is resistance of a microorganism to an antimicrobial medicine to which it was previously sensitive. The ideal investigation of non-clinical environments for antibiotic resistance of clinical relevance would be using standardized guidelines and breakpoints. This review outlines different definitions and methodologies used to understand antibiotic resistance and suggests how this can be performed outside of the clinical environment. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 7 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 2 | 29% |
| Spain | 1 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 14% |
| South Africa | 1 | 14% |
| Unknown | 2 | 29% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 4 | 57% |
| Scientists | 3 | 43% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 155 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Sweden | 3 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 2% |
| Israel | 1 | <1% |
| Estonia | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Croatia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 144 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 34 | 22% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 28 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 19 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 15 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 11 | 7% |
| Other | 30 | 19% |
| Unknown | 18 | 12% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 55 | 35% |
| Environmental Science | 16 | 10% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 15 | 10% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 13 | 8% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 10 | 6% |
| Other | 20 | 13% |
| Unknown | 26 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 May 2013.
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#6,339,040
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Outputs from Frontiers in Microbiology
#6,401
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#68,401
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Microbiology
#96
of 407 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,696,971 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 71st percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 24,508 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.4. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 73% of its peers.
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