Groundwater antibiotics contamination in an alluvial-pluvial fan, North China Plain: Occurrence, sources, and risk assessment

Research on Bacterial Diversity and Antibiotic Resistance in the Dairy Farm Environment in a Part of Shandong Province

“…Currently, antibiotics are extensively utilized not only in the medical domain but also in sub-therapeutic doses for prolonged periods in fields such as agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fisheries on a global scale. However, the abuse and misuse of antibiotics have led to their excessive overdose being detected many times in surface water, groundwater, and soil worldwide [ 24 , 25 ]. In farming activities, some small and medium-sized farmers have poor awareness of standardized medication use, and the abuse of antibiotics exists more often.…”

Oxygen Vacancy-Enhanced Electrocatalytic Degradation of Tetracycline over a Co3O4–La2O3/Peroxymonosulfate System

“…Antibiotics are chemotherapeutic agents developed to inhibit or kill bacteria for the curing of infections . Tetracycline (TC), one of the broad-spectrum antibiotics, has been widely used in medicine for both human and animal treatments, as well as in aquaculture. , However, as a result of overuse and misuse, TC has recently been discovered in water bodies as an emerging contaminant, which in turn requires significant efforts for mitigation. , It has been proven that TC accumulated in the environment poses a potential hazard to human health and ecological balance due to the spread of specific and multiple resistances. − Various approaches have been proposed to mitigate the accumulation of TC in aquatic ecosystems, such as adsorption, membrane filtration, , hydrolysis, and so on, − which still face some problems such as low efficiency and high cost for treatment.…”