Pubblicazione scientifica

The incidence of antibiotic resistance within and beyond the agricultural ecosystem: A concern for public health

FILONE TECNOLOGICO	TEMA
economia circolare e sostenibilità

RIASSUNTO

Abstract

The agricultural ecosystem creates a platform for the development and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance, which is promoted by the indiscriminate use of antibiotics in the veterinary, agricultural, and medical sectors. This results in the selective pressure for the intrinsic and extrinsic development of the antimicrobial resistance phenomenon, especially within the aquaculture‐animal‐manure‐soil‐water‐plant nexus. The existence of antimicrobial resistance in the environment has been well documented in the literature. However, the possible transmission routes of antimicrobial agents, their resistance genes, and naturally selected antibiotic‐resistant bacteria within and between the various niches of the agricultural environment and humans remain poorly understood. This study, therefore, outlines an overview of the discovery and development of commonly used antibiotics; the timeline of resistance development; transmission routes of antimicrobial resistance in the agro‐ecosystem; detection methods of environmental antimicrobial resistance determinants; factors involved in the evolution and transmission of antibiotic resistance in the environment and the agro‐ecosystem; and possible ways to curtail the menace of antimicrobial resistance.

DATA

Data di pubblicazione: 25/07/2020

AUTORI

IWU CHIDOZIE D
KORSTEN LISE
OKOH ANTHONY I

ENTE DI AFFERENZA

SAMRC MICROBIAL WATER QUALITY MONITORING CTR UNIV FORT HARE ALICE SOUTH AFRICA
APPLIED & ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY RSCH GROUP DEPT BIOCHEMISTRY & MICROBIOLOGY UNIV FORT HARE ALICE SOUTH AFRICA
DEPT PLANT & SOIL SCIENCES FACULTY OF NATURAL & AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES UNIV PRETORIA PRETORIA SOUTH AFRICA

RIVISTA

MicrobiologyOpen, 9(9), e1035

IMPACT FACTOR

2,710

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