Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Williams, ST
• Vickers, J C
• Colwell, RR
• Demain, AL (eds)

Titel

The ecology of antibiotic production

Ist Teil von

• Microbial ecology. New York NY [MICROB. ECOL.]. Vol. 12, no. 1. 1986, 1986, Vol.12 (1)

Erscheinungsjahr

1986

Quelle

SpringerLink E-Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Over the last 40 years, there has been a steady supply of novel, useful antibiotics produced by microbes isolated from soil and other natural environments. The increased efficiency of screening procedures in the last decade has played a major part in maintaining this supply. However, the selection and sampling of natural environments are still essentially random processes. The main reasons for this are an almost total lack of knowledge of the significance of antibotics in nature, deficiencies in the taxonomy of antibiotic-producing microbes and its application, and lack of information about the distribution and ecology of known or potential antibiotic producers.