Aquaculture uses hundreds of tonnes of antimicrobials annually to prevent and treat bacterial infection. The passage of these antimicrobials into the aquatic environment selects for resistant bacteria and resistance genes and stimulates bacterial mutation, recombination, and horizontal gene transfer. The potential bridging of aquatic and human pathogen resistomes leads to emergence of new antimicrobial-resistant bacteria and global dissemination of them and their antimicrobial resistance genes into animal and human populations.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/aquaculture-yet-another-environmental-gateway-development-and-globalisation
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/felipe-c-cabello-0
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/henry-p-godfrey-0
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/alejandro-h-buschmann-et-al
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/lancet-infectious-diseases
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/undefined
