Antibiotic residues in the environment of South East Asia

Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg; Ashok J Tamhankar

doi:10.1136/bmj.j2440

Antibiotic residues in the environment of South East Asia

BMJ. 2017 Sep 5:358:j2440. doi: 10.1136/bmj.j2440.

Authors

Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg¹, Ashok J Tamhankar^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
² Department of Environmental Medicine, RD Gardi Medical College, Ujjain, India.

Abstract

Cecilia Stålsby Lundborg and Ashok Tamhankar discuss how antibiotic residues in the environment contribute to antibiotic resistance in South East Asia and propose actions to mitigate the problem

MeSH terms

Animals
Anti-Bacterial Agents*
Asia, Southeastern
Drug Industry
Drug Resistance, Bacterial*
Environment
Environmental Pollutants*
Environmental Pollution / adverse effects*
Environmental Pollution / prevention & control
Humans

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Environmental Pollutants