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Symposium on Antibiotic resistance: origins, evolution, selection and spread, held at the Ciba Foundation, London, July 16–18 1996
Editors: Derek J. Chadwick (Organizer) and Jamie Goode
This symposium was based on a proposal made by Jamie Goode

S. B. Levy Antibiotic resistance: an ecological imbalance

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J. E. Davies Origins, acquisition and dissemination of antibiotic resistance determinants
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P. Huovinen, H. Seppälä, J. Kataja, T. Klaukka and the Finnish Study Group for Antimicrobial resistance The relationship between erythromycin consumption and resistance in Finland
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R. Gaynes and D. Monnet The contribution of antibiotic use on the frequency of antibiotic resistance in hospitals
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W. Witte Impact of antibiotic use in animal feeding on resistance of bacterial pathogens in humans
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H. Giamarellou and A. Antoniadou The effect of monitoring of antibiotic use on decreasing antibiotic resistance in the hospital
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F. Baquero, C. Negri, M. I. Morosini and J. Blázquez The antibiotic selective process: concentration-specific amplification of low-level resistant populations
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M. Lipsitch and B. R. Levin The within-host population dynamics of antibacterial chemotherapy: conditions for the evolution of resistance
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R. E. Lenski The cost of antibiotic resistance—from the perspective of a bacterium
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K. Bush The evolution of beta-lactamases
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R. A. Skurray and N. Firth Molecular evolution of multiply-antibiotic-resistant staphylococci
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R. M. Hall Mobile gene cassettes and integrons: moving antibiotic resistance genes in Gram-negative bacteria
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M. C. Roberts Genetic mobility and distribution of tetracycline resistance determinants
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M. L. Cohen Epidemiological factors influencing the emergence of antimicrobial resistance
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S. B. Levy Summary

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