Emerging Contaminants: Antibiotic Residues and Their Environmental Impact
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 120
Special Issue Editors
Interests: degradation and transformation of organic micro-pollutants in environments; correlation of antibiotics with resistant bacteria and resistance genes in environments; advanced biological technologies for wastewater treatment; risk assessment and control technologies for wastewater reuse
Interests: metagenomics; antimicrobial resistance; microbial ecology; wastewater treatment; drinking water safety; biotechnology
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Interests: environmental transmission of antibiotic resistance genes; detection and control of pathogens in water; interaction between phages and bacterial hosts
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The extensive use and abuse of various antibiotics induce the persistence of their residues as emerging contaminants, as well as development of resistant bacteria and genes in the environment, which has conferred enormous and complicated impacts on human health and environmental safety. The category, concentrations, source, migration, transformation and degradation of antibiotics in the environment have been subjected to growing concerns in recent years. Moreover, antibiotic resistance genes and resistant bacteria have been considered as new environmental pollutants. Thus, various technologies and measures are being developed or proposed to prevent and control antimicrobial resistance—a focal point in the fields of environment and public health. However, there are still gaps in the environmental behaviors and impacts of various antibiotic residues, as well as on the methodologies or technologies to record and alter the complicated processes of their migration, transformation and degradation in the environment. It is crucial to develop new measures to deepen our understanding of the occurrence form, behavioral patterns and environmental impacts of antibiotics, so as to scientifically and systematically prevent and control their environmental and health risks.
This Special Issue welcomes innovative research on the occurrence forms, diversity and abundance, migration patterns, and transformation and degradation processes of antibiotic residues in the environment, as well as the assessment, prevention or control of their impacts on ecological security and human health, particularly concerning antibiotic resistance, including the establishment of new theoretical knowledge and technologies in relevant fields.
Prof. Dr. Xuxiang Zhang
Prof. Dr. Liping Ma
Dr. Peng Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antibiotics
- antimicrobial resistance
- environmental behavior
- environmental pollution
- health risk
- high-throughput sequencing
- resistome
- non-target screening
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