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ReviewCurrent research in microbial sciences2021

Environmental antibiotics and resistance genes as emerging contaminants: Methods of detection and bioremediation.

Niharika Koch, Nazim F Islam, Songita Sonowal, Ram Prasad, Hemen Sarma

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Review in Current research in microbial sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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38citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 220 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Niharika KochDepartment of Botany, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari 845401, Bihar, India.
Nazim F IslamDepartment of Botany, Nanda Nath Saikia College, Titabar, Assam 785630, India.
Songita SonowalDepartment of Botany, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari 845401, Bihar, India.
Ram PrasadDepartment of Botany, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari 845401, Bihar, India.
Hemen SarmaDepartment of Botany, Nanda Nath Saikia College, Titabar, Assam 785630, India.
Central University of South Bihar · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In developing countries, the use of antibiotics has helped to reduce the mortality rate by minimizing the deaths caused by pathogenic infections, but the costs of antibiotic contamination remain a major concern. Antibiotics are released into the environment, creating a complicated environmental problem. Antibiotics are used in human, livestock and agriculture, contributing to its escalation in the environment. Environmental antibiotics pose a range of risks and have significant effects on human and animal health. Nevertheless, this is the result of the development of antibiotic-resistant and multi-drug-resistant bacteria. In the area of health care, animal husbandry and crop processing, the imprudent use of antibiotic drugs produces antibiotic-resistant bacteria. This threat is the deepest in the developing world, with an estimated 700,000 people suffering from antibiotic-resistant infections each year. The study explores how bacteria use a wide variety of antibiotic resistance mechanism and how these approaches have an impact on the environment and on our health. The paper focuses on the processes by which antibiotics degrade, the health effects of these emerging contaminants, and the tolerance of bacteria to antibiotics.

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Antibiotic resistance genesEmerging pollutantsLivestock productionPharmaceutical products

Identifiers

PMID34841318
PMCPMC8610363
OpenAlexW3165058996

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