Environmental pollution with antibiotics leads to resistance
More and more people are infected with antibiotic resistant bacteria. But how do bacteria become resistant? A recent doctoral thesis from the Centre for Antibiotic Resistance Research at University of Gothenburg has investigated the role of the environment in the development of antibiotic resistance.“An important question we asked was how low concentrations of antibiotics that can favour the growth of resistant bacteria in the environment”, says Johan Bengtsson-Palme, author of the thesis. “Based on our analyses, we propose emission limits for 111 antibiotics that should not be exceeded