Environmental aspects of antibiotic resistance

The authors point to the need for guidelines and disinfection practices for using untreated water for irrigation of food crops. These papers exemplify the One-Health nature of the AMR problem, and that the origins, transmission routes and directions, and reservoirs can be many and complicated. Sequence information, including long-read technology, will become even more central to resolving sources and spread, and hence identifying practices that break the pathways to humans.