Indian wastewater rife with drug resistance genes | News | Eco-Business
Wider adoption of wastewater surveillance systems is critical to address the growing public health challenge in India posed by resistance to antimicrobial medicines, say researchers who found urban waste samples teeming with resistance genes. By 2050, antimicrobial resistance (AMR)—the process whereby medicines used to fight bacterial infections become ineffective—could lead to an estimated 10 million deaths a year globally, with up…
