Antibiotics in the Environment: Causes and Consequences
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 2022
Special Issue Editor
Interests: Cellular Physiology of Bacteria and Environmental Microbiology; elucidation of biodegradation pathways for organic pollutants; isolation of novel organic pollutant degrading bacteria; microbial genome analysis; bacterial stress response; and multicellular behavior of bacteria
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Antibiotics have been widely used to treat and prevent bacterial infections in humans, animals and plants. After their use in humans and animals, a significant portion of unmetabolized antibiotics pass through the body and are released through excreta (i.e., feces and urine). Many recent studies have investigated various routes of entry of these antibiotics into the environment. Antibiotics are widely detected in run-off water from farms with antibiotic-treated animals. City sewage water is also contaminated by human-derived and improperly disposed of antibiotics. Manure from drug-treated animals, as well as antibiotic-contaminated sludge and effluent from wastewater systems, further spreads antibiotics via agricultural farms and surface water. The primary scope of this Special Issue is to investigate the cause of increased antibiotics in various environments.
The emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens poses an eminent threat to human health, the economy and ecosystems. For example, increased antibiotics in the environment have been postulated to be responsible for the spread of antibiotic-resistance genes in bacterial populations and the rise of multidrug-resistant pathogenic bacteria. The second aim of this Special Issue is to address the consequences of increased antibiotics in the environment.
For this Special Issue of Antibiotics, titled “Antibiotics in the Environment: Causes and Consequences”, we invite current and innovative research related to the broad topic of antibiotics in the environment.
Dr. Hisako Masuda
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- antibiotics
- multidrug resistant bacteria
- environment
- soil
- aquatic
- sistant genes
