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| Title |
Concentration-dependent activity of antibiotics in natural environments
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Microbiology, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00020 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Steve P. Bernier, Michael G. Surette |
| Abstract |
Bacterial responses to antibiotics are concentration-dependent. At high concentrations, antibiotics exhibit antimicrobial activities on susceptible cells, while subinhibitory concentrations induce diverse biological responses in bacteria. At non-lethal concentrations, bacteria may sense antibiotics as extracellular chemicals to trigger different cellular responses, which may include an altered antibiotic resistance/tolerance profile. In natural settings, microbes are typically in polymicrobial communities and antibiotic-mediated interactions between species may play a significant role in bacterial community structure and function. However, these aspects have not yet fully been explored at the community level. Here we discuss the different types of interactions mediated by antibiotics and non-antibiotic metabolites as a function of their concentrations and speculate on how these may amplify the overall antibiotic resistance/tolerance and the spread of antibiotic resistance determinants in a context of polymicrobial community. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2 | 50% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 1 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 75% |
| Scientists | 1 | 25% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 481 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 7 | 1% |
| Estonia | 2 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Israel | 1 | <1% |
| Denmark | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Poland | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 466 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 100 | 21% |
| Researcher | 74 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 64 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 40 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 19 | 4% |
| Other | 63 | 13% |
| Unknown | 121 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 140 | 29% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 67 | 14% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 35 | 7% |
| Environmental Science | 27 | 6% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 16 | 3% |
| Other | 58 | 12% |
| Unknown | 138 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 04 April 2013.
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#8,349,657
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Outputs from Frontiers in Microbiology
#8,586
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#84,912
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Microbiology
#121
of 405 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 29,801 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 70% of its peers.
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