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Sublethal exposure to commercial formulations of the herbicides dicamba, 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, and Glyphosate cause changes in antibiotic susceptibility in Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium

Kurenbach, B.; Marjoshi, D.; Amábile-Cuevas, C. F.; Ferguson, G. C.; Godsoe, William; Gibson, P.; Heinemann, J. A. (American Society for Microbiology, 2015-03-24)

Biocides, such as herbicides, are routinely tested for toxicity but not for sublethal effects on microbes. Many biocides are known to induce an adaptive multiple-antibiotic resistance phenotype. This can be due to either ...

Effects of sub-lethal concentrations of copper ammonium acetate, pyrethrins and atrazine on the response of Escherichia coli to antibiotics [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Jun, H.; Kurenbach, B.; Aitken, J.; Wasa, A.; Remus-Emsermann, M. N. P.; Godsoe, William; Heinemann, J. A. (F1000Research, 2019-01-09)

Background: Antibiotic resistance in human and animal pathogens is mainly the outcome of human use of antibiotics. However, bacteria are also exposed to thousands of other antimicrobial agents. Increasingly those exposures ...