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Monitoring of Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Agroecosystems

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Antibiotics and Antibiotics Resistance Genes in Soils

Part of the book series: Soil Biology ((SOILBIOL,volume 51))

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Antibiotics are frequently administered by humans for certain therapeutic purposes. Antibiotics are principally used in human medicine and agriculture. Their secondary utilization in animal livestock production at subtherapeutic level is for growth enhancement and improvement of feed competence. The presence of antibiotics, antibiotic residues, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and antibiotic resistance genes in agroecosystem has turned into a significant area of concern for environment and public health. Extensive use of antibiotics and the application of animal wastes to agricultural lands play a significant role in the induction of antibiotic-related sedimentation and contamination into the agroecosystems. The impacts of introduction of antibiotic contaminants into the environment are unknown, and serious concerns have been raised about the health of human beings, animals, and ecosystems. The occurrence and fate of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance has been extensively focused over the past decade. However, standard methods, interpretations, and practices to investigate environmental samples are limited exploiting future research needs to be evident. Different culture-based molecular approaches are used as a part of evaluation of antibiotic resistance in samples collected in agroecosystem. Literature urges researchers to incorporate baseline information within the review framework and background data from outside the review framework to enhance the state of science in antibiotic resistance-related probe studies in agroecosystems. This chapter discusses the assembly of work that concentrates on aspects of the fate, transport, and persistence of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in the innate environments with emphasis on culture and molecular-based methods and mechanisms relevant to the soil environments.

The original version of this chapter was revised. An erratum to this chapter can be found at DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-66260-2_22.

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  1. Department of Biochemistry, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, 60800, Pakistan

    Sarfraz Ahmed, Muhammad Ibrahim, Rabia Khushi Muhammad, Iqra Naseem, Rubbea Idrees & Ateeq-ur- Rehman

  2. Department of Meteorology, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi

  3. Department of Plant Pathology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, 60800, Pakistan

    Ateeq-ur- Rehman

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Ahmed, S. et al. (2017). Monitoring of Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Agroecosystems. In: Hashmi, M., Strezov, V., Varma, A. (eds) Antibiotics and Antibiotics Resistance Genes in Soils. Soil Biology, vol 51. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66260-2_5

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