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ClearEnvironmental drivers of antibiotic resistance: Synergistic effects of climate change, co-pollutants, and microplastics
This review examines how climate change, chemical pollutants, and microplastics work together to accelerate the spread of antibiotic resistance, a growing global health crisis. Microplastics provide surfaces where bacteria form communities that exchange resistance genes, and as these plastics age in the environment, they become even better at absorbing other pollutants, creating hotspots that amplify drug resistance.
Antibiotic Resistance: Moving From Individual Health Norms to Social Norms in One Health and Global Health
This review argues that antibiotic resistance should be understood as a global pandemic requiring coordinated One Health and Global Health approaches, rather than just an individual patient concern. Researchers explain how resistant bacteria and resistance genes spread across humans, animals, food systems, water, and natural environments including those contaminated with microplastics. The study advocates for social norms and socioeconomic frameworks that address antibiotic resistance within the broader context of environmental sustainability.
How Antimicrobial Resistance Is Linked to Climate Change: An Overview of Two Intertwined Global Challenges
This review explores how climate change and antibiotic resistance are connected health emergencies, with microplastics playing a role as carriers that help spread resistant bacteria through waterways. The findings suggest that rising plastic pollution in water systems may contribute to the spread of drug-resistant infections, which is a growing threat to human health.
Combating antimicrobial resistance: the silent war
This review examines the growing global crisis of antimicrobial resistance, where bacteria become immune to antibiotics due to overuse in medicine and agriculture. Although focused on drug resistance, the paper is relevant to microplastic research because microplastics have been shown to harbor antibiotic-resistant bacteria and facilitate the transfer of resistance genes in the environment, potentially making this public health crisis worse.
Microplastic-associated antimicrobial resistance: an AI-aided systematic literature review and distribution mapping
An AI-aided systematic literature review and distributional analysis examined microplastic-associated antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquatic and other environments. The authors found growing evidence that microplastics accelerate AMR spread, with important implications for environmental and health policy.
Modeling Antimicrobial Resistance Spread in Riverine Ecosystems: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Researchers developed a multidisciplinary modeling framework to simulate antimicrobial resistance (AMR) spread in riverine ecosystems, incorporating wastewater discharge, agricultural runoff, and microplastic-associated resistance gene transfer. The model predicted AMR gene concentrations along river corridors and identified intervention points for reducing environmental AMR dissemination.
The Role of the Environment (Water, Air, Soil) in the Emergence and Dissemination of Antimicrobial Resistance: A One Health Perspective
This review examines how water, soil, and air act as reservoirs for antibiotic-resistant bacteria, with microplastics highlighted as one of several agents that help spread drug-resistant genes across environments. The findings matter for human health because microplastics can carry antibiotic-resistant bacteria from wastewater and agricultural runoff into water supplies and food systems.
El impacto de la resistencia a los antibióticos en el desarrollo sostenible
This Spanish-language review discusses antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as a growing global public health crisis, examining how antibiotics spread through ecosystems and drive resistance in bacteria. While not primarily about microplastics, the paper is relevant because microplastics are known carriers of antibiotic resistance genes in aquatic environments. The authors call for a One Health approach to AMR that considers environmental reservoirs.
Environmental pollution as a critical driver of antimicrobial resistance emergence
Researchers argue that environmental pollution — including microplastics, antibiotics, and heavy metals — is fueling the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by allowing bacteria to swap resistance genes in rivers, soils, and wastewater, yet most global AMR policies still ignore environmental pathways. The authors call for stricter discharge limits and better monitoring of contaminated environments as part of a One Health approach.
Interplay Between Antimicrobial Resistance and Global Environmental Change
This review explores how global environmental changes, including pollution, climate change, and habitat destruction, are accelerating the spread of antimicrobial resistance. Researchers found that factors like microplastic pollution, heavy metals, and pharmaceutical waste create conditions that promote the evolution of resistant bacteria. The study suggests that addressing antimicrobial resistance requires considering it as an environmental problem, not just a medical one.
Climate warming, environmental degradation and pollution as drivers of antibiotic resistance
This review summarizes existing research showing that environmental degradation -- including climate change, pesticide and metal pollution, and microplastics -- is helping drive the spread of antibiotic resistance, one of the biggest threats to modern medicine. Microplastics are specifically highlighted as surfaces where antibiotic-resistant bacteria thrive and spread, meaning plastic pollution may be making infections harder to treat.
COVID-19 and antimicrobial resistance: A cross-study
This review explores how the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated antimicrobial resistance through increased antibiotic use, widespread disinfectant application, and massive volumes of plastic personal protective equipment waste. Researchers found that pandemic-related microplastic pollution creates additional surfaces for resistant bacteria to colonize and exchange resistance genes. The study highlights the intersection of pandemic waste management and the global antibiotic resistance crisis.
Novel Insights into the Antimicrobial Resistance and Strategies to Curb the Menace
This review covers the mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance emergence and spread, summarizing novel strategies to combat resistance including phage therapy, antivirulence compounds, and enhanced surveillance, and discusses how environmental contamination including microplastics may contribute to resistance.
COVID-19 pandemic and antimicrobial resistance in developing countries
This review examined how the COVID-19 pandemic increased antimicrobial drug use and resistance in developing countries, highlighting that improper waste disposal, hospital effluents, and microplastics acting as vectors for antibiotic-resistant organisms compound resistance risks in lower-income settings that already lack diagnostic capacity and infection control infrastructure.
How microplastics and nanoplastics shape antibiotic resistance?
This review examines how micro- and nanoplastics act as vectors for antibiotic resistance genes, facilitating their spread through environmental and biological systems by creating selective pressure and hosting microbial communities that exchange resistance determinants.
The Nexus of Plastic Pollution, Climate Change, and Antibiotic Resistance: An Interdisciplinary Study
Researchers integrated global datasets, statistical analysis, and laboratory experiments to quantify how microplastics, temperature, and antibiotic resistance gene (ARG) prevalence interact to drive horizontal gene transfer. A strong correlation (R² = 0.987) between temperature and ARG transfer rates was found, with a 40% increase in HGT at 35°C, and both plastic density and ARG prevalence confirmed as significant predictors of resistance gene dissemination.
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.
Risk of antimicrobial resistance spreading via food loss and waste.
This review found that food loss and waste can serve as a reservoir for antimicrobial resistance genes and antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and that improper disposal — particularly in landfills contaminated with microplastics and heavy metals — accelerates the environmental spread of antimicrobial resistance.
Microplastics in marine pollution: Oceanic hitchhikers for the global dissemination of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria
This review examines how marine microplastics serve as surfaces for biofilm formation by bacteria, including carbapenem-resistant strains, enabling the global dissemination of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria through ocean currents. The authors highlight the plastisphere as an understudied vector for spreading antibiotic resistance genes across marine environments.
Microplastics: Disseminators of antibiotic resistance genes and pathogenic bacteria
This review examined the role of microplastics as carriers of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and pathogenic bacteria, analyzing how plastisphere biofilms concentrate and spread AMR through air, water, and soil environments. The evidence supports MPs as global vectors for antimicrobial resistance dissemination with implications for human health.
Healthcare-Generated Co-pollutants as Environmental Determinants of Antimicrobial Resistance: Governance Challenges at the Healthcare–Environmental Interface
This paper examines how healthcare systems generate co-pollutants including microplastics, PFAS, and antimicrobials that flow into the environment and contribute to antimicrobial resistance. Researchers argue that the traditional focus on individual antimicrobial stewardship overlooks the broader material conditions that healthcare waste creates for resistance to emerge and spread. The study calls for governance reforms that address the healthcare-environment interface as a critical pathway for antimicrobial resistance.
Healthcare-Generated Co-pollutants as Environmental Determinants of Antimicrobial Resistance: Governance Challenges at the Healthcare–Environmental Interface
This paper examines how healthcare systems generate co-pollutants including microplastics, PFAS, and antimicrobials that flow into the environment and contribute to antimicrobial resistance. Researchers argue that the traditional focus on individual antimicrobial stewardship overlooks the broader material conditions that healthcare waste creates for resistance to emerge and spread. The study calls for governance reforms that address the healthcare-environment interface as a critical pathway for antimicrobial resistance.
The Role of Environmental and Climatic Factors in Accelerating Antibiotic Resistance in the Mediterranean Region
This review examines how climate change and environmental factors accelerate antibiotic resistance in the Mediterranean region, including the role of microplastics as environmental reservoirs. The study suggests that rising temperatures and altered precipitation create conditions favoring bacterial growth and horizontal gene transfer of resistance genes, with microplastics among the environmental surfaces that can harbor and spread resistant organisms.
Antibiotic resistance in plastisphere
Researchers reviewed antibiotic resistance in the plastisphere — the microbial community colonizing plastic surfaces in aquatic environments — finding that plastic properties and aging influence the enrichment and horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance genes, and that aged microplastics pose elevated risks due to increased adsorption of resistant bacteria.