Antibiotic Resistance in Minimally Human-Impacted Environments
Antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) have become contaminants of concern in environmental systems. Studies investigating environmental ARB have primarily focused on environments that are greatly impacted by anthropogenic activity. Background concentrations of ARB in natural environments is not well u...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:7313453 2023-05-15T14:01:31+02:00 Antibiotic Resistance in Minimally Human-Impacted Environments Scott, Laura C. Lee, Nicholas Aw, Tiong Gim 2020-06-02 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7313453/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32498349 https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17113939 en eng MDPI http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7313453/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32498349 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17113939 © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). CC-BY Int J Environ Res Public Health Review Text 2020 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17113939 2020-07-05T00:42:48Z Antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) have become contaminants of concern in environmental systems. Studies investigating environmental ARB have primarily focused on environments that are greatly impacted by anthropogenic activity. Background concentrations of ARB in natural environments is not well understood. This review summarizes the current literature on the monitoring of ARB and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in environments less impacted by human activity. Both ARB and ARGs have been detected on the Antarctic continent, on isolated glaciers, and in remote alpine environments. The methods for detecting and quantifying ARB and ARGs from the environment are not standardized and warrant optimization. Further research should be focused on the detection and quantification of ARB and ARGs along human gradients to better characterize the factors leading to their dissemination in remote environments. Text Antarc* Antarctic PubMed Central (PMC) Antarctic The Antarctic International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17 11 3939 |
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Antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) have become contaminants of concern in environmental systems. Studies investigating environmental ARB have primarily focused on environments that are greatly impacted by anthropogenic activity. Background concentrations of ARB in natural environments is not well understood. This review summarizes the current literature on the monitoring of ARB and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in environments less impacted by human activity. Both ARB and ARGs have been detected on the Antarctic continent, on isolated glaciers, and in remote alpine environments. The methods for detecting and quantifying ARB and ARGs from the environment are not standardized and warrant optimization. Further research should be focused on the detection and quantification of ARB and ARGs along human gradients to better characterize the factors leading to their dissemination in remote environments. |
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Antibiotic Resistance in Minimally Human-Impacted Environments |
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Antibiotic Resistance in Minimally Human-Impacted Environments |
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Antibiotic Resistance in Minimally Human-Impacted Environments |
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Antibiotic Resistance in Minimally Human-Impacted Environments |
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Antibiotic Resistance in Minimally Human-Impacted Environments |
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antibiotic resistance in minimally human-impacted environments |
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