Antimicrobial Resistance | Student Poster | 2019

ANALYSIS OF ANTIBIOTICS AND CHEMICALS OF EMERGING CONCERN IN BANGLADESH SURFACE WATERS BY TARGET AND NON-TARGET ANALYSIS

Luisa F. Angeles, Shamim Islam, Jared Aldstadt, Fatema Tuz Johura, Kazi Nazmus Saqeeb, Munirul Alam, and Diana S. Aga
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Antimicrobial Resistance in Bangladesh

•Unethical promotion of antibiotics

•Self medication without prescriptions

•High level of antimicrobial drug use for humans and animals, and medicines are often shared

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  • Understand and Control AMR Emergence and Spread from Hospital and Municipal Wastewater
    7/21/20
    Residues of antimicrobial drugs and their metabolites, antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), and antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARBs), are continuously introduced into the aquatic environment from hospital wastewater discharges and municipal wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluents. However, current literature lacks an understanding of the role of antibiotic resistance (AR) elements from the environment on the proliferation and dissemination of AR in a human population that is directly impacted by these wastewater-contaminated waters.