Antibiotic Resistance in the Water Environment
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2022) | Viewed by 7816
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) are recognized as a global threat for human health, great efforts to fight them have been made worldwide and lots of actions against ARB are ongoing in a “One-health approach” involving not only human but animal and environment health. To acceralate such actions, we need to accumulate the data and knowledge from scientific research, especially in water environments which receive effluents from human society and play a role as the sink of ARB and resistant genes (ARGs). This Special Issue aims to a showcase of the latest studies on ARB in the water environment and welcomes manuscripts concering:
- Prevalence of ARB and ARGs in the water environment affected by human activities such as munisicpal and industial wastewaters, animal husbandry and agriculture.
- Comparison of ARB and ARGs detected in the water environment between developed and developing countries.
- Potentials of ARB growth and ARGs transmission in the water environment.
- Residual antibiotics and its impact on ARB in the water environment.
- New technologies for research on the above topics
Prof. Dr. Toru Watanabe
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Antibiotic resistant bacteria
- Antibiotic resistant genes
- Water environment
- Residual antibiotics
- One health approach
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