Veterinary antibiotics (VAs) are used worldwide in animal farming as drugs to treat or
prevent diseases and serve as feed additives. VAs are usually poorly sorbed in the animal …

Antibiotics are highly effective, bioactive substances. As a result of their consumption,
excretion, and persistence, they are disseminated mostly via excrements and enter the soils …

Antibiotics act as an ecological factor in the environment that could potentially affect
microbial communities. The effects include phylogenetic structure alteration, resistance …

Simple Summary Beside their use to treat infections, antibiotics are used excessively as
growth promoting factors in livestock industry. Animals discharge in their feces and urine …

Antibiotics are administered to livestock animals as medications and, in some jurisdictions,
as growth promotors. This review examines the impact of veterinary antibiotics on methane …

The fate of antibiotic residues in the manure of treated animals is of considerable concern
because of the potential development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the environment and …

Antibiotics are used to maintain healthy livestock and to promote weight gain in
concentrated animal feed operations. Antibiotics rarely are metabolized completely by …

The effect of antibiotics on the psychrophilic anaerobic digestion (PAD) of swine manure
slurry in sequencing batch reactors (SBRs) was investigated. Six antibiotics, tylosin …

Swine manure was typical for the combined pollution of heavy metals and antibiotics. The
effects of widely used veterinary antibiotic chlortetracycline (CTC), Cu and their combination …

The individual and combined effect of cefazolin (CFZ) and oxytetracycline (OTC) on
thermophilic anaerobic digestion (55° C) of dairy manure in batch digesters was …