AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION SITES AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON SUPERBUG RESISTANCE

Welcome dear readers of this prestigious platform. Through this publication we will continue to share knowledge of scientific interest, perhaps not with the thematic approach that I usually do in other publications of this nature, but whose support allows us to give a valid justification of the phenomenon under study.

Therefore, we will be analyzing the resistance that some species of bacteria have been generating on antibiotics that previously fulfilled an effective function on the bactericidal species they attacked.

So that somehow bacteria have managed to generate a mutation that currently have made them immune to drugs, medicines or chemicals that we know, so that scientists have considered these species as superbugs.

So to evaluate this behavior, we will rely on an investigation that has been conducted by World Animal Protection, around pig farms and where the abuse of antibiotics in animal species, have fostered the resistance generated by the species of bacteria that has developed in the vicinity of these spaces.

The study has shown that the main mutations or resistance that have been generated have made the efficiency of antibiotics of the ARGs genus impossible, which has awakened the alarms of epidemiological staff, products that annually generate more than 700,000 deaths worldwide, due to diseases caused by bacteria and according to the parameters on the resistance collected, these figures will go up, if this problem is not attacked in time.

The deaths in general lines are due to the fact that previously the diseases could be attacked with the use of antibiotics, however, due to the mutations reached by bacteria will make it more complicated to eradicate the health problem that is generated.

Methodologically the study has been based on the sampling of water effluents and sediments from different points of pig farms, where the results show that the species of bacteria found in the collected samples are immune to antibiotic ARGs and based on this it is necessary to ask ourselves, what is the cause of this resistance generated?

The answer to the current question is based on the use of antibiotics, where one way to keep the species of animals that cohabit the farms healthy is through food supplements and antibiotics to attack these diseases, The problem lies in the uncontrolled abuse that has been generated in antibiotics, which through animal waste, end up accumulating in water sources and soils near the farms and the bacteria that live there, have adapted to the presence of these substances and have managed to mutate and generate resistance to them.

Hence, it is necessary to take timely measures to prevent the proliferation of these bacteria, since as is well known, most of the agricultural areas are built near rivers and lakes, which in some cases their waters are used for consumption and where bacteria can enter the trophic chain with great ease.

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[1] Oliart, R. Manresa, Á. Sánchez M. (2016). Utilization of microorganisms from extreme environments and their products in biotechnological development. Biotecnología y Ciencias Agropecuarias ISSN 2007-7521. 11(1): 79-90. Article: Online Access