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Antibiotics in the Soil: Sources, Environmental Issues, and Bioremediation

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Book cover Antibiotics and Antibiotics Resistance Genes in Soils

Part of the book series: Soil Biology ((SOILBIOL,volume 51))

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Enormous quantities of antibiotics have been released into the environment from different sources, pathways, and anthropogenic activities. The overuse and misuse of antibiotics and its recalcitrant nature to biological degradation make them persistent or pseudo-persistent in the environment and toxic to non-target flora and fauna including human beings. Phytoremediation in the broad sense offers a powerful technology for the removal of various contaminants form environment. Besides, the phytoremediation technologies are less utilized for the removal of antibiotics from soil. Therefore, there is rapid need of exploration and exploitation of newer plants facilitating efficient removal/degradation of antibiotics from soil.

The original version of this chapter was revised. An erratum to this chapter can be found at DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-66260-2_22.

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  1. Department of Botany, Government Vidarbha Institute of Science and Humanities, Amravati, 444604, Maharashtra, India

    Umesh B. Jagtap

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  1. Department of Meteorology, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi

  2. Faculty of Science and Engineering, Department of Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Vladimir Strezov

  3. Amity Institute of Microbial Technology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Ajit Varma

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Jagtap, U.B. (2017). Antibiotics in the Soil: Sources, Environmental Issues, and Bioremediation. In: Hashmi, M., Strezov, V., Varma, A. (eds) Antibiotics and Antibiotics Resistance Genes in Soils. Soil Biology, vol 51. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66260-2_20

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