Antibiotics and Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in the Environment: Volume 1 in the Advances in Environmental Pollution Research series

Antibiotics and Antimicrobial Resistance Genes (AMR) in the Environment summarizes and updates information on antibiotic producing organisms and their resistance and entry routes in soil, air, water and sediment. As antibiotic use continues to rise in healthcare, their fate, bioavailability and biomonitoring, and impacts on environment and public health are becoming increasingly important. The book addresses the impact of antibiotics and AMR to environment and public health and risk assessment. Moreover, it focused on the metagenomics and molecular techniques for the detection of antibiotics and antimicrobial genes. Lastly, it introduces management strategies, such as treatment technologies for managing antibiotics and AMR/ARGs-impacted environment, and bioremediation approaches.

Provides analysis of risk assessment of antibiotic resistance genes to help understand the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of antibiotics and AMR/ARGs

1. Microorganism and antibiotic production 2. Antibiotics and Antimicrobial resistance: temporal and global trends in the environment 3. Antibiotics presence in hospitals and associated wastes 4. Current Trends of Antimicrobials Used in Food Animals and Aquaculture 5. Major Natural Sinks for Harboring microorganisms with Altered Antibiotic Resistance Vs Major Human Contributing Sources of Antibiotic Resistance: A Detailed Insight 6. Dissemination of Antibiotic Resistance in the Environment 7. Long Range Transport of Antibiotics and AMR/ARGs 8. Antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance mechanism of entry in the environment 9. Antibiotics, AMR, and ARGs fate in the environment 10. Bio-monitoring of antibiotics, AMR, and ARGs 11. Antibiotics uptake in Plants 12. Modeling the Spread of Antibiotics and AMR/ARGs in Soil 13. Metagenomics and methods development for determination of antibiotics and AMR/ARGS 14. Global trends in ARGs measured by HT-qPCR platforms 15. Databases, multiplexed PCR, and next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies for tracking AMR genes in the environment 16. Toxicity of antibiotics 17. Carbapenems and Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Mechanisms and epidemiology 18. Environmental and Public Health Effects of Antibiotics and AMR/ARGs 19. Antibiotics Resistance Mechanism 20. Microbial Risk Assessment and Antimicrobial Resistance 21. Environmental risk assessment of antibiotics and AMR/ARGs 22. Nanobiotechnology based drug delivery strategy as a potential weapon against multiple drug-resistant pathogens 23. Treatment Technologies and Management options of Antibiotics and AMR/ARG