Antibiotic resistance among bacteria isolated from seawater and penguin fecal samples collected near Palmer Station, AntarcticaThis article is one of a selection of papers in the Special Issue on Polar and Alpine Microbiology.

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Microbiology
• Main Authors: Miller, Robert V., Gammon, Katharine, Day, Martin J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2009
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Palmer Station; Palmer-Station; Palmer Archipelago; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/w08-119; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/full-xml/10.1139/W08-119; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/W08-119

Antibiotic resistance in aquatic bacteria has increased steadily as a consequence of the widespread use of antibiotics, but practice and international treaty should have limited antibiotic contamination in Antarctica. We estimated antibiotic resistance in microorganisms isolated from the Antarctic m...