title: The double life of antibiotics.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: M Edward A. Doisy Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, USA. myap1@slu.edu
authors.forename: Mee-Ngan F
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Yap
mesh_terms: D000821:Animal Feed; D000818:Animals; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology* / Q000600:supply & distribution; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D017277:Drug Approval; D055808:Drug Discovery; D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents