Keywords
emerging pollutants
molecularly imprinted polymer
bacterial resistance
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Abstract
Antibiotics are drugs which are widely used for the treatment of bacterial diseases and are starting to be considered emerging pollutants,. Antibiotics are used in human and animal health care. When antibiotics are incompletely metabolized, they go into wastewater through feces and urine, compounding the pollution caused by their inadequate final disposal, hospital effluents and some industries, and reach wastewater treatment plants, where they are not properly processed due to a lack of monitoring and specific regulations, as well as to their trace and ultra-trace concentrations, which makes them harder to monitor. Antibiotics in the environment can give rise bacterial resistance genes, decrease microbial diversity and be potentially toxic to some animals, such as fish and invertebrates. Very few drug monitoring studies have been conducted in Latin America, but some of them have shown that environmental concentrations are higher in some water bodies than in wastewater. This review proposes revealing the environmental problems of antibiotics in Latin America, from the lack of monitoring to the absence of environmental regulations.References
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