Antibiotic Residues Articles & Analysis
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With this approach we can reduce antibiotic and medicine residues in surface water. However, the largest part of the residues of medicines in wastewater comes from ‘regular’ households. ...
Introduction The accidental discovery of antibiotics, penicillin, by Alexander Fleming in the late 1920s (1) reshaped human and animal medicine. Initially the focus was on limiting the impact of infectious disease processes in humans. As their usage increased, it was observed that they also could play an important role in the production of animals and they eventually were deemed essential to ...
During a 12–month period, 138 tissue samples (muscle, liver, kidney) were screened for antibiotic residues (ARs), using the five–plate STAR test. Samples positive to one or more antibiotics were detected in 33.9% of the chicken samples and in 26% of the pig samples. All the chicken liver samples, 32.2% of the chicken muscle and 14% of the swine ...