Veterinary antibiotics in animal waste, its distribution in soil and uptake by plants: A review

Antibiotic‐induced effects on scaling relationships and on plant element contents in herbs and grasses

“…They are the most commonly sold antibiotic compound classes used for food‐producing animal species in Europe, with 37%, 23%, and 11% of sold antibiotics, respectively (European Medicines Agency, 2013; Tasho & Cho, 2016). As they are polar (with logKW < 3) they likely accumulate in plant tissue (Trapp & Eggen, 2013).…”

“…We used quartz sand instead of potting soil to guarantee a homogenous substrate for all treatments and thus prevent variation in soil‐related factors (e.g., water‐holding capacity) across pots. Also, antibiotics are organic compounds with a tendency to adsorb to soil particles, depending on soil pH, soil organic matter, and soil minerals (Tasho & Cho, 2016; Tolls, 2001). Using quartz sand, we restrained adsorption to soil organic matter, which can be strong (Thiele, 2000).…”

Antibiotics and their environmental implications

“…The presence and persistence of antibiotics in the aquatic environment is a worldwide concern (Fram & Belitz, 2011;von Schiller et al, 2017), because they are widely used in animal production (Tasho & Cho, 2016), aquaculture and agriculture (Jiang, Zhou, Yang, Chen, & Cheng, 2017). Antibiotics are disseminated mainly through direct and indirect emissions such as excrement, sewage irrigation and sludge compost, getting into the environment negatively impacting soil ecosystems Shi, Yue, Du, Wang, & Li, 2016) and Agua (Vo et al, 2016), as it is shown in graph 1, the interaction of antibiotics and the environment.…”

Impact of Antibiotics of Anthropogenic Origin on Bacterial Soil Communities in Agricultural Ecosystems. Review

“…Pharmaceuticals, especially antibiotics are intensively used in animal husbandry either as therapeutic agents or for prophylactic measures (Kummerer 2009a;Tasho & Cho 2016). Land spreading of animal manure releases in the environment a large variety of antibiotics (A), antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and a vast variety of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) into the environment (Bender et al 2016).…”

“…Different antibiotic classes have different adsorption properties in soil environments (Wang & Wang 2015). The evolution of antimicrobial resistance is related to both long term exposure to low doses as well as short term exposure to high doses of antibiotics, genetic variation and horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance genes (HGT) (Martinez 2009;Tasho & Cho 2016). The dissemination of ARGs in the natural environments is related with horizontal gene transfer (Williams-Nguyen et al 2016;von Wintersdorff et al 2016).…”