title: Antibiotic Resistance in and from Nature.
abstract: Recent studies have shown that antibiotic resistance genes are omnipresent in nature. Human use of antimicrobial compounds as therapeutics, growth-promoting agents, pesticides, etc., over the past half century have contributed to this situation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Life Science Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada.
authors.forename: Julian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Davies