
Antibiotics and Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in the Environment
Volume 1 in the Advances in Environmental Pollution Research series
Description
Key Features
- Summarizes and updates information on antibiotics and AMR/ARGs production and its fate and transport in the environment
- Includes phytoremediation and bioremediation technologies for environmental management
- Provides analysis of risk assessment of antibiotic resistance genes to help understand the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of antibiotics and AMR/ARGs
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Table of Contents
1. Microorganism and antibiotic production
2. Antibiotics and Antimicrobial resistance: temporal and global trends in the environment
3. Antibiotics presence in hospitals and associated wastes
4. Current Trends of Antimicrobials Used in Food Animals and Aquaculture
5. Major Natural Sinks for Harboring microorganisms with Altered Antibiotic Resistance Vs Major Human Contributing Sources of Antibiotic Resistance: A Detailed Insight
6. Dissemination of Antibiotic Resistance in the Environment
7. Long Range Transport of Antibiotics and AMR/ARGs
8. Antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance mechanism of entry in the environment
9. Antibiotics, AMR, and ARGs fate in the environment
10. Bio-monitoring of antibiotics, AMR, and ARGs
11. Antibiotics uptake in Plants
12. Modeling the Spread of Antibiotics and AMR/ARGs in Soil
13. Metagenomics and methods development for determination of antibiotics and AMR/ARGS
14. Global trends in ARGs measured by HT-qPCR platforms
15. Databases, multiplexed PCR, and next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies for tracking AMR genes in the environment
16. Toxicity of antibiotics
17. Carbapenems and Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Mechanisms and epidemiology
18. Environmental and Public Health Effects of Antibiotics and AMR/ARGs
19. Antibiotics Resistance Mechanism
20. Microbial Risk Assessment and Antimicrobial Resistance
21. Environmental risk assessment of antibiotics and AMR/ARGs
22. Nanobiotechnology based drug delivery strategy as a potential weapon against multiple drug-resistant pathogens
23. Treatment Technologies and Management options of Antibiotics and AMR/ARG
Product details
- No. of pages: 432
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2019
- Published: November 20, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128188828
- eBook ISBN: 9780128188835
About the Editor
Muhammad Hashmi
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