Significance of antibiotics in the environment.

By K. Kümmerer. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 2003

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Subfields: Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Environmental Chemistry, Pollution

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Metrics for optimising the multi-dimensional value of resources recovered from waste in a circular economy: A critical review (2017, background): “fuels, steam and electricity) is used, then these are products or over the counter prescription medications) (Boxall, 2004; Kleywegt et al., 2011; Kümmerer, 2003); black carbon (BC) emissions, which constitute the main component of soot produced due to incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, biomass ”
Tissue Engineering for Clean Meat Production (2019, background): “In addition, 70–80% of the antibiotics used in the United States are given to farm animals (Kümmerer, 2003; Elliott, 2015).”
Antibiotics induce redox-related physiological alterations as part of their lethality (2014, background): “In nature, bacteria are most likely to be exposed to sublethal concentrations of antibiotics (103, 104), which have been shown to induce beneficial antibiotic mutagenesis capably (79).”
Resistance in the environment. (2004, background): “Concentrations are normally some orders of magnitude lower in the environment than for therapeutic use.(1) – 4,6 – 10 There has been growing concern about antimicrobial resistance for some years now.”
Fate of antibiotics during municipal water recycling treatment processes. (2010, background): “The intentional disposal of unused drugs into the sewer (Kummerer, 2003) and veterinary use (Diaz-Cruz et al.”
Nitrogen-doped bamboo-like carbon nanotubes with Ni encapsulation for persulfate activation to remove emerging contaminants with excellent catalytic stability (2018, background): “As a representative and main contributor of PPCPs, sulfonamide antibiotics have been intensively 43 used in animal husbandry and human medicine owing to their low cost and good therapeutic effect 44 [4-8].”
Antibiotics in the aquatic environment--a review--part I. (2009, background): “Antibiotics are of particular interest because we currently do not know whether their presence in natural waters contributes to the spread of antibiotic resistance in microorganisms (Kümmerer, 2003).”
Antibiotics in the aquatic environments: A review of the European scenario. (2016, background): “…and highlighting the lack of comprehension on the potential toxicological consequences of antibiotics in ecosystems (e.g. Hirsch et al. (1999), Kümmerer (2003), Sarmah et al. (2006), Baquero et al. (2008), Kemper (2008),Martinez (2009), Kümmerer (2009b), Kümmerer (2009c),Milić et al. (2013),…”
Tetracycline antibiotics in the environment: a review (2013, background): “(1998), the annual production volume of drugs has been estimated in several hundreds of tons, whereas its annual use has been globally estimated between 100,000 and 200,000 tons (Kummerer 2003).”