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- “Concerns associated with the overuse of silver and the consequent emergence of
bacterial resistance are being raised...[including] the likelihood of widespread
resistance to silver and the potential for silver to induce cross-resistance to
antibiotics.”
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resistant acinetobacter baumannii. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 51(10).
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- “We may soon be facing the end of the ‘antibiotic era.” The initial and seemingly
unstoppable success of antibiotics, the fruit of human ingenuity, has been
countered by...the emergence of many genera of bacteria that are resistant to all
antibiotics. The genus Acinetobacter epitomizes this trend and deserves close
attention.” - “There are reports of MDR A. baumannii from hospitals in Europe, North
America, Argentina, Brazil, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, and Korea and
from areas as remote as Tahiti in the South Pacific.” - “More recently, cases of United Kingdom and U.S. military and nonmilitary
personnel returning from operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and harboring
infections caused by MDR A. baumannii are receiving increased attention.”
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treatment plants and by riverbank filtration. Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal
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- “Pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) and drugs of abuse (Das) are two
important groups of emerging environmental contaminants that have raised an
increasing interest in the scientific community.” - “Some compounds are not efficiently removed during wastewater treatment
processes, being able to reach surface and groundwater and subsequently,
drinking waters.”