The experimental work of the Group for the Study of Resistance and Drug Interactions carried out in real agricultural conditions yielded interesting results published in the prestigious journal Science of the Total Environment (IF 7,9, DIF1, QAIS1 published by Elsevier).
Increased expression of drug-metabolizing enzymes and more effective anthelmintic inactivation in helminths whose hosts (sheep) were fed fodder (clover, alfalfa) from a field fertilized with faeces of treated animals was confirmed. In their work, the authors have clearly shown that unwanted drug circulation in the environment can contribute to the gradual emergence of drug resistance in helminths, dangerous animal and human parasites. The first and most important author of the publication is doctoral student Mgr. Diana Dimunová, which we warmly congratulate.
The publication is available: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153527
Text: Graduate Student & Research Services
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