Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 603
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Examines effects of the environmental distribution of antimicrobial resistance genes on human health and the ecosystem

Resistance genes are everywhere in nature?in pathogens, commensals, and environmental microorganisms. This contributed work shows how the environment plays a pivotal role in the development of antimicrobial resistance traits in bacteria and the distribution of resistant microbial species, resistant genetic material, and antibiotic compounds. Readers will discover the impact of the distribution in the environment of antimicrobial resistance genes and antibiotics on both the ecosystem and human and animal health.

Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment is divided into four parts:

• Part I, Sources, including ecological and clinical consequences of antibiotic resistance by environmental microbes

• Part II, Fate, including strategies to assess and minimize the biological risk of antibiotic resistance in the environment

• Part III, Antimicrobial Substances and Resistance, including antibiotics in the aquatic environment

• Part IV, Effects and Risks, including the effect of antimicrobials used for non-human purposes on human health

Recognizing the intricate links among overlapping complex systems, this book examines antimicrobial resistance using a comprehensive ecosystem approach. Moreover, the book's multidisciplinary framework applies principles of microbiology, environmental toxicology, and chemistry to assess the human and ecological risks associated with exposure to antibiotics or antibiotic resistance genes that are environmental contaminants.

Each chapter has been written by one or more leading researchers in such fields as microbiology, environmental science, ecology, and toxicology. Comprehensive reference lists at the end of all chapters serve as a gateway to the primary research in the field.

Presenting and analyzing the latest findings in a field of growing importance to human and environmental health, this text offers readers new insights into the role of the environment in antimicrobial resistance development, the dissemination of antimicrobial resistant genetic elements, and the transport of antibiotic resistance genes and antibiotics.

Content:
Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1–6): Stuart B. Levy
Chapter 2 Path to Resistance (pages 7–14): Vivian Miao, Dorothy Davies and Julian Davies
Chapter 3 Antibiotic Resistome: A Framework Linking the Clinic and the Environment (pages 15–27): Gerard D. Wright
Chapter 4 Ecological and Clinical Consequences of Antibiotic Subsistence by Environmental Microbes (pages 29–41): Gautam Dantas and Morten O. A. Sommer
Chapter 5 Importance of Adaptive and Stepwise Changes in the Rise and Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance (pages 43–71): Lucia Fernandez, Elena B. M. Breidenstein and Robert E. W. Hancock
Chapter 6 Environmental Reservoirs of Resistance Genes in Antibiotic?Producing Bacteria and Their Possible Impact on the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance (pages 73–91): Paris Laskaris, William H. Gaze and Elizabeth M. H. Wellington
Chapter 7 Mechanisms of Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance and Lessons Learned from Environmental Tetracycline?Resistant Bacteria (pages 93–121): Marilyn C. Roberts
Chapter 8 Environmental Antibiotic Resistome: New Insights from Culture?Independent Approaches (pages 123–148): Isabel S. Henriques, Artur Alves, Maria Jose Saavedra, Mark H. M. M. Montforts and Antonio Correia
Chapter 9 Environmental Pollution by Antibiotic Resistance Genes (pages 149–172): Jose Luis Martinez and Jorge Olivares
Chapter 10 Quantifying Anthropogenic Impacts on Environmental Reservoirs of Antibiotic Resistance (pages 173–201): Amy Pruden and Mazdak Arabi
Chapter 11 Antibiotic Resistance in Swine?Manure?Impacted Environments (pages 203–223): Joanne Chee?Sanford, Scott Maxwell, Kristy Tsau, Kelly Merrick and Rustam Aminov
Chapter 12 Antimicrobial?Resistant Indicator Bacteria in Manure and the Tracking of Indicator Resistance Genes (pages 225–239): Christina S. Holzel and Karin Schwaiger
Chapter 13 Municipal Wastewater as a Reservoir of Antibiotic Resistance (pages 241–250): Timothy LaPara and Tucker Burch
Chapter 14 Strategies to Assess and Minimize the Biological Risk of Antibiotic Resistance in the Environment (pages 251–264): Thomas Schwartz
Chapter 15 Antibiotic Resistance in Animals—The Australian Perspective (pages 265–290): Olasumbo Ndi and Mary Barton
Chapter 16 Detection and Occurrence of Antibiotics and Their Metabolites in Pig Manure in Bavaria (Germany) (pages 291–307): Katrin Harms and Johann Bauer
Chapter 17 Fate and Transport of Antibiotics in Soil Systems (pages 309–324): Alistair B. A. Boxall
Chapter 18 Antibiotics in the Aquatic Environment (pages 325–335): Klaus Kummerer
Chapter 19 Residues of Veterinary Drugs in Wild Fish (pages 337–348): Thomas Heberer
Chapter 20 Role of Quaternary Ammonium Compounds on Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment (pages 349–387): Ulas Tezel and Spyros G. Pavlostathis
Chapter 21 Human Health Importance of use of Antimicrobials in Animals and Its Selection of Antimicrobial Resistance (pages 389–422): Scott A. McEwen
Chapter 22 Antimicrobial Resistance Associated with Salmonid Farming (pages 423–451): Claudio D. Miranda
Chapter 23 Effect of Veterinary Medicines Introduced via Manure into Soil on the Abundance and Diversity of Antibiotic Resistance Genes on Their Transferability (pages 453–463): Holger Heuer, Christoph Kopmann, Ute Zimmerling, Ellen Krogerrecklenfort, Kristina Kleineidamm, Michael Schloter, Eva M. Top and Kornelia Smalla
Chapter 24 Tracking Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Genes through the Composting Process and Field Distribution of Poultry Waste: Lessons Learned (pages 465–481): Patricia L. Keen and Nancy De With
Chapter 25 Environmental Microbial Communities Living Under Very High Antibiotic Selection Pressure (pages 483–501): Anders Janzon, Erik Kristiansson and D. G. Joakim Larsson
Chapter 26 Antibiotic Use During an Influenza Pandemic: Downstream Ecological Effects and Antibiotic Resistance (pages 503–537): Andrew C. Singer and Heike Schmitt
Chapter 27 Use of Veterinary Antibacterial Agents in Europe and the United States (pages 539–548): Ingeborg M. van Geijlswijk, Nico Bondt, Linda F. Puister?Jansen and Dik J. Mevius
Chapter 28 Regulatory Research on Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment (pages 549–567): Emily A. McVey and Mark H. M. M. Montforts