Bacterias resistentes a antibióticos en ecosistemas acuáticos
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Date
2015-07
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Corporación Universitaria Lasallista
Abstract
In this revision the subject of antibiotic resistant
bacteria in aqueous ecosystems is analyzed in detail,
characterizing the outlook of bacterial resistance
to antibiotics. A discussion on the dissemination of
antibiotics in the environment is made, studying the
sources of antibiotics in aqueous ecosystems and,
finally, the environmental effects of antibiotic resistant
bacteria contamination are analyzed. Antibiotics
are probably the most successful family of drugs
developed to improve human health by preventing
and treating infections, but their worldwide use and
sale reveal that, in general, there is a systematic failure
in data to achieve an effective intervention and the
proposition of strategies against the environmental
problems brought by antibiotic resistant bacteria.
Besides, there is a close relationship between the
remains of antibiotics in ecosystems and the increase
of antibiotic resistant bacteria, but at the moment
the information available is not enough to achieve
a definite conclusion concerning the importance
and the impact of the presence of such bacteria in
aqueous environments that allow the assessment
of their potential hazardousness in the ecosystems
and for human health. The hypothesis that the use
of antibiotics for purposes different than antibiotic
therapy can increase the population of antibiotic
resistant bacteria able to affect human beings and the
biota in general, is also proposed.
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Corporación Universitaria Lasallista, Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá, Contaminantes emergentes, Contaminación del agua, Antibióticos, Resistencia a los antibióticos