title: Moral Polemics of Far-Reaching Economic Consequences of Antibiotics Overuse.
abstract: The unethical overuse of antibiotics to seek to achieve a shortening of the treatment period raises the cost of health services and poses a threat to humanity due to the gradual development of antibiotic resistance. Other consequences of our modern passion for antibiotics have appeared. Small concentrations of antibiotic residues in sewage waters slow down the metabolism of anaerobic microorganism thereby reducing the overall performance of the anaerobic fermentation used to detoxify and digest sewage and other collected organic wastes. Reduced biogas yields represents a serious threat to the energy self-sufficiency of some waste-water treatment plants, so it might change them from energy producers into energy consumers. Morally justifiable production of renewable energy from bio-waste is also threatened by antibiotic residues that remain in the bio-waste.
authors.affiliation: The Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice, Okružní 517/10, 370 01, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic. vochozka.marek@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Marek
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vochozka
authors.affiliation: The Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice, Okružní 517/10, 370 01, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Maroušková
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Management and Informatics, University of Žilina, Univerzitná 8215/1, 010 26, Zilina, Slovakia.
authors.forename: Petr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Šuleř
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D004785:Environmental Pollutants; D000067490:Prescription Drug Overuse / Q000191:economics* / Q000941:ethics*
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D004785:Environmental Pollutants
keywords: Economy; Health management; Reengineering; Social responsibility; Valuation