Antibiotic Resistance in the Environment: a Link to the Clinic?

Abstract

Antibiotic resistance in microbes is starting to become a bigger deal daily, due to the incredibly fast rate of microbial genetic evolution.  It is because of recent research that scientists now know that bacteria out in the environment have a broad range of antibiotic resistance to multiple antibiotics. In aquatic environments these organisms develop their resistance because of human activities. Horizontal Gene Transfer is used in isolating these genes and inserting them into plasmids. Further research has discovered that there are bacteria that develop resistance to multiple antibiotics without being introduced to any human involvement to affect their genome.