There has been an increasingly number of antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) that have become present in our aquatic environments. This is the result of the medications that doctors prescribe to people for infections and other sicknesses. The more antibiotic medication is used the more bacteria build a resistance to it and reproduce. Glady-Croue and colleagues did a study to see if artificial solar radiation would kill the ARB in waste water and it did not. In fact, it killed a lot of environmental bacteria but after the artificial solar radiation the ARB had a higher count than they did before the treatment. This means that the bacteria that was resistant to the radiation was also resistant to antibiotic drugs. Now knowing this we can see that ARB bacteria will be harder to kill, this will mean possible new drugs that need to be made to kill them, other lab ways to kill the bacteria, and new ways will be needed to find the bacteria so that we don't consume them.
Figure 1: Shows a simple diagram of what happened during the experiment.
Original Article:
Glady-Croue J, Niu X-Z, Ramsay JP, Watkin E, Murphy RJT, Croue J-P. (2018). Survival of antibiotic resistant bacteria following artificial solar radiation of secondary wastewater effluent. Science of The Total Environment. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969718301219 (Accessed October 25, 2019).
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