American Society for Microbiology, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 24(86), 2020
DOI: 10.1128/aem.01204-20
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Glyphosate-based herbicides (GBH) are among the world’s most popular, with traces commonly found in food, feed, and the environment. Such high ubiquity means that the herbicide may come into contact with various microorganisms, on which it acts as an antimicrobial, and it may select for resistance and cross-resistance to clinically important antibiotics. It is therefore important to estimate whether the widespread use of pesticides may be an underappreciated source of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms that may compromise efficiency of antibiotic treatments in humans and animals.