Designing Safer and Greener Antibiotics
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Jordan A
; Gathergood N
Antibiotics (Basel)
2013[Sep]; 2
(3
): 419-38
PMID27029311
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Since the production of the first pharmaceutically active molecules at the
beginning of the 1900s, drug molecules and their metabolites have been observed
in the environment in significant concentrations. In this review, the persistence
of antibiotics in the environment and their associated effects on ecosystems,
bacterial resistance and health effects will be examined. Solutions to these
problems will also be discussed, including the pharmaceutical industries input,
green chemistry, computer modeling and representative ionic liquid research.
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