New study links common herbicides and antibiotic resistance

New study links common herbicides and antibiotic resistance

6 years ago
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https://phys.org/news/2018-10-links-common-herbicides-antibiotic-resistance.html

This study adds to a growing body of evidence that herbicides used on a mass industrial scale, but not intended to be antibiotics, can have profound effects on bacteria, with potentially negative implications for medicine's ability to treat infectious diseases caused by bacteria, says University of Canterbury scientist Professor Jack Heinemann, one of the study's authors.

"The combination of chemicals to which bacteria are exposed in the modern environment should be addressed alongside antibiotic use if we are to preserve antibiotics in the long-term," he says.