Since their discovery, antibiotics have been instrumental in treating infectious diseases that
were previously known to kill humans and animals. However, their widespread use as an …

The presence of antibiotic drug residues, antibiotic resistant bacteria, and antibiotic
resistance genes in agroecosystems has become a significant area of research in recent …

Antibiotics are bioactive substances, and their use as human and animal medicines for
illness prevention, disease treatment and growth promotion has increased in recent …

One aspect of the use of antibiotics in animal agriculture, which to date has received modest
attention, concerns the effects of antibiotics excreted by animals upon the environment. The …

The use of antibiotics at subtherapeutic concentrations for agricultural applications is
believed to be an important factor in the proliferation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The goal …

Detection of many emerging chemicals of concern, including antimicrobials and steroid
hormones, in the environment has increased in the past decade with the advancement of …

Antibiotics are highly effective, bioactive substances. As a result of their consumption,
excretion, and persistence, they are disseminated mostly via excrements and enter the soils …

Antibiotics were discovered for medicinal applications, notably in the last century and since
then, they have been prevalently employed for prophylactic purposes in various sectors in …

Background Microbial resistance to medically important antibiotics is of international
concern. There is considerable attention paid to the medical and veterinary use of antibiotics …

Globally, besides human medicine, an increasing amount of antibiotics as veterinary drugs
and feed additives are used annually in many countries with the rapid development of the …