Antimicrobial Resistance Elements in Coastal Water of Llanquihue Lake, Chile.

ABSTRACT: Antimicrobial resistance has been stated to be a global health problem. In Chile, the use of antibiotics should be declared by medical prescription, but it is unknown what happens to the drugs once the treatment ends. Among the possibilities for their disposal are the trash or the drain; regardless of which scenario arises, antibiotics could accumulate in the environment, stimulating the emergence of antimicrobial resistance mechanisms and their transfer between microorganisms. Unfortunately, sometimes wastewater ends up in bodies of water, due to the dragging of elements by rain, or by the presence of illegal water discharges. In this work, shotgun metagenomics was used to elucidate the functional and microbial composition of biohazard elements in the bay of Puerto Varas City, Chile. As e

SUBMITTER: Campanini-Salinas J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11273793 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature