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ClearInteractions of microplastics and antibiotic resistance genes and their effects on the aquaculture environments
This review explores the relationship between microplastics and antibiotic resistance genes in aquaculture environments. Researchers found that microplastics can serve as surfaces where antibiotic-resistant bacteria thrive and exchange resistance genes, potentially accelerating the spread of antibiotic resistance in fish farms and surrounding waterways.
Interactions and associated resistance development mechanisms between microplastics, antibiotics and heavy metals in the aquaculture environment
This review explores how microplastics, antibiotics, and heavy metals interact in aquaculture environments to promote antibiotic resistance. Researchers found that microplastics can serve as carriers for both antibiotics and metals, creating hotspots where bacteria are more likely to develop resistance genes. The study underscores the compounding ecological and human health risks when these three types of pollutants co-exist in fish farming settings.
A Review of Antibiotics, Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria, and Resistance Genes in Aquaculture: Occurrence, Contamination, and Transmission
This review examines how overuse of antibiotics in fish farming leads to antibiotic-resistant bacteria and resistance genes that spread through water, sediment, and the organisms themselves. This is relevant to microplastic pollution because microplastics in aquaculture environments can carry antibiotic-resistant bacteria, potentially transferring these dangerous genes to humans through the food chain.
Microplastics and antibiotic resistance genes as rising threats: Their interaction represents an urgent environmental concern
This review examines how microplastics interact with antibiotics and antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the environment, creating a combined pollution threat. Microplastics can absorb antibiotics onto their surface and serve as platforms where bacteria exchange resistance genes. This interaction could accelerate the spread of antibiotic resistance, making infections harder to treat and posing a growing public health risk.
Insight into combined pollution of antibiotics and microplastics in aquatic and soil environment: Environmental behavior, interaction mechanism and associated impact of resistant genes
This review examines the combined pollution created when microplastics absorb antibiotics in water and soil environments. Researchers found that microplastics can concentrate antibiotics on their surfaces, and this combination promotes the spread of antibiotic-resistant genes in microbial communities. The study highlights that the interaction between these two emerging pollutants may pose greater environmental and health risks than either one alone.
The nexus of microplastics, food and antimicrobial resistance in the context of aquatic environment: Interdisciplinary linkages of pathways
This review examines how microplastics in aquatic environments serve as surfaces where bacteria can grow, share antibiotic resistance genes, and then enter the food chain through contaminated seafood. The combination of microplastic pollution and antimicrobial resistance creates a compounding threat, as resistant bacteria riding on plastic particles can survive water treatment and reach humans. The authors call for interdisciplinary research connecting environmental science and public health to address this growing risk.
The contamination of microplastics and antibiotics in aquaculture wastewater: Their remediation technologies and interaction effects on their removal
This review paper found that tiny plastic particles (microplastics) and antibiotics in fish farm wastewater interact with each other in ways that make both pollutants harder to remove from water. The plastic bits can soak up antibiotics and change how they break down, while antibiotics can interfere with removing the plastics. This matters because both microplastics and antibiotic pollution can harm human health, so we need better cleanup methods that tackle both problems together.
Ecotoxicological Effects of Microplastics Combined With Antibiotics in the Aquatic Environment: Recent Developments and Prospects
This review examines how microplastics and antibiotics interact in water environments, finding that microplastics can absorb antibiotics onto their surfaces and carry them over long distances. When aquatic organisms encounter these antibiotic-laden microplastics, the combined toxicity can be worse than either pollutant alone. Microplastics also promote the spread of antibiotic resistance genes, which is a growing public health concern.
Are microplastics in aquaculture an undeniable driver in accelerating the spread of antibiotic resistance genes?
This review examines how microplastics in aquaculture environments may accelerate the spread of antibiotic resistance genes by serving as surfaces where resistant bacteria can reproduce and exchange genetic material. The study suggests that the combination of plastic fishing gear debris and long-term antibiotic misuse in aquaculture creates conditions that threaten both ecosystem balance and food safety, though further research is needed to fully understand the scope of these effects.
Interaction of Microplastics with Antibiotics in Aquatic Environment: Distribution, Adsorption, and Toxicity
This review examines how microplastics and antibiotics interact in waterways, finding that microplastics can absorb antibiotics from the water and change their availability and toxicity to aquatic organisms. Critically, microplastics also provide surfaces where antibiotic resistance genes can accumulate and spread among bacteria. This is concerning for human health because it means microplastics in water could be accelerating the spread of antibiotic-resistant infections.
Microplastics and Antibiotics in Aquatic Environments: A Review of Their Interactions and Ecotoxicological Implications
This review examines how microplastics and antibiotics interact when they meet in water, and what that means for ecosystems and health. Antibiotics can attach to microplastic surfaces through chemical bonds, and the microplastics can then carry these drugs through the environment, potentially spreading antibiotic-resistant bacteria. While the combined threat to fish and other aquatic life needs more study, the findings raise concerns about how microplastics help move antibiotic resistance through water systems.
A review on the effect of micro- and nano-plastics pollution on the emergence of antimicrobial resistance
This review highlights how microplastics serve as breeding grounds for antimicrobial resistance genes, examining the overlooked interaction between plastic pollution and antibiotic resistance that poses combined threats to environmental and human health.
Emerging Antibiotic Resistance Genes in the Aquatic Ecosystems: a Review
A review of 30 studies found antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) widely distributed across aquatic ecosystems — in surface water, groundwater, wastewater, and notably on plastic and microplastic debris in these environments. Microplastics appear to provide favorable surfaces for the growth and exchange of resistant bacteria, making plastic pollution a potential vector for spreading antibiotic resistance. The findings highlight an understudied intersection between microplastic contamination and the global antibiotic resistance crisis.
Interaction between microplastic biofilm formation and antibiotics: Effect of microplastic biofilm and its driving mechanisms on antibiotic resistance gene
This review explores how microplastics in water environments develop biofilms that interact with antibiotics in concerning ways. Researchers found that biofilm-coated microplastics can enhance the adsorption of antibiotics and serve as hotspots for antibiotic resistance genes. The study highlights the risk that microplastic biofilms could accelerate the spread of antibiotic resistance through aquatic ecosystems.
The impact of microplastics on antibiotic resistance genes, metal resistance genes, and bacterial community in aquaculture environment
Researchers discovered that microplastics in fish farming environments carry significantly higher levels of antibiotic resistance genes and disease-causing bacteria like Brucella and Pseudomonas compared to surrounding water. This means microplastics may act as floating platforms that help spread antibiotic-resistant infections through aquaculture, potentially reaching humans who consume the seafood.
Interactions of microplastics, antibiotics and antibiotic resistant genes within WWTPs
This review examined the interactions between microplastics, antibiotics, and antibiotic resistance genes within wastewater treatment plants, analyzing how MPs serve as carriers for antimicrobial compounds and facilitate the spread of resistance in microbial communities.
Biofilm formation on microplastics and interactions with antibiotics, antibiotic resistance genes and pathogens in aquatic environment
This review explains how microplastics in waterways develop bacterial biofilms on their surfaces that can harbor antibiotic-resistant bacteria and help spread antibiotic resistance genes to new environments. This is concerning for human health because these resistant microbes could eventually reach people through drinking water or seafood consumption.
Research progress on the origin, fate, impacts and harm of microplastics and antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater treatment plants
This review explores how microplastics and antibiotic resistance genes interact in wastewater treatment plants, where they can survive treatment and enter the environment together. The concern for human health is that these contaminants can travel through the food chain, potentially increasing illness from antibiotic-resistant infections.
Co-occurence of antibiotics and micro(nano)plastics: a systematic review between 2016-2021
This systematic review examines how microplastics and antibiotics interact in the environment. It finds that microplastics can absorb and carry antibiotics, potentially spreading antibiotic resistance and creating combined health risks that are greater than either pollutant alone.
Effects of microplastics on distribution of antibiotic resistance genes in recirculating aquaculture system
Microplastics in a recirculating aquaculture system were found to alter the distribution of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in biofilms and water, with higher ARG diversity detected on microplastic surfaces than in surrounding water. This suggests that microplastics in fish farming operations could serve as reservoirs and vectors for spreading antibiotic resistance.