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- Title
ENVIRONMENTAL SPREAD OF ANTIBIOTIC MOLECULES, ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT BACTERIA AND GENES: JIGSAW PIECES OF A PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM.
- Authors
Silveira, Maria Eduarda; Freitas, Ana R.; Peixe, Luísa; Novais, Carla
- Abstract
A massive use of antibiotics in human medicine and in animal production setting is responsible for the release to the environment of waste products contaminated by antibiotic molecules, antibiotic resistant bacteria and/or their genes. Particular conditions found in the environment might promote the selection and a long time persistence of microorganisms with an extraordinary ability to participate in genetic horizontal dissemination and recombination events, which might improve their adaptation and colonization skills to diverse settings, including the human one. The contamination of different environmental niches in several regions worldwide may undermine the success of the resistant bacteria containment measures.
- Subjects
ANTIBIOTICS; WASTE products; BACTERIA; GENES; MICROBIAL metabolites; MICROORGANISMS
- Publication
Revista da Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde, 2009, Vol 6, p244
- ISSN
1646-0480
- Publication type
Article