Wednesday 3 March 2021

Optimizing disinfection to prevent spread of antibiotic resistance in wastewater

For nearly a century, improvement in human healthcare has depended heavily on the efficiency with which we can treat bacterial diseases. But today, antibiotic resistance—the ability of certain mutant super-bacteria to block out antibiotics—poses a major threat to healthcare, food security and overall social development worldwide, threatening to upend much medical progress.

source https://phys.org/news/2021-03-optimizing-disinfection-antibiotic-resistance-wastewater.html