Commentary, J Forensic Toxicol Pharmacol Vol: 4 Issue: 2
Can Bacteria Subsist on Antibiotics?
| Shyamapada Mandal1* and Manisha Deb Mandal2 | |
| 1Laboratory of Microbiology and Experimental Medicine, Department of Zoology, University of Gour Banga, Malda, India | |
| 2Department of Physiology, MGM Medical College and LSK Hospital, Kishanganj, Bihar, India | |
| Corresponding author : Dr. Shyamapada Mandal Laboratory of Microbiology and Experimental Medicine, Department of Zoology, University of Gour Banga, Malda-732103, India E-mail: samtropmed@gmail.com |
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| Received: May 30, 2015 Accepted: June 10, 2015 Published: June 12, 2015 | |
| Citation: Mandal S, Mandal MD (2015) Can Bacteria Subsist on Antibiotics? J Forensic Toxicol Pharmacol 4:2. doi:10.4172/2325-9841.1000140 |
Abstract
Can Bacteria Subsist on Antibiotics?
The rampant and indiscriminate use of antibiotics in different systems for therapy as well as their industrial and agricultural application have resulted into the accumulation of high concentration of such agents in various environmental systems, which again have caused disruption of the normal microbial balance, by outcompeting the useful and non-pathogenic bacteria, and increasing the number of drug-resistant pathogenic bacteria, in the system.
