This is a shitty, clickbait title which I'm sorry about, but the article itself is decent though verbose. And the subject matter itself seems important enough to be worth overlooking some presentation issues, and deserves public attention, even if it's not new to many here. I follow medical literature reasonably closely for a layman (I have a cousin finishing their residency soon) but while antibiotic resistance and the links to agriculture has gotten a lot of discussion and begun to reach the public at last, this is the first time I can remember hearing about this particular link to agriculture and triazole resistance. I remember reading about fungal infections a number of times over the years as a difficult class of infections, but I had assumed that no human compatible compounds were used there because they didn't boost animal size and there were hundreds of human (well probably mammal in general) bio-incompatible ones that were fine with plants.
This probably shouldn't be surprising but it's still worrisome given how few compounds there are for medical use even compared to antibiotics. At least in America for whatever reason apparently agricultural triazole use is still relatively low though increasing, so perhaps it could still be nipped in the bud so to speak.
This probably shouldn't be surprising but it's still worrisome given how few compounds there are for medical use even compared to antibiotics. At least in America for whatever reason apparently agricultural triazole use is still relatively low though increasing, so perhaps it could still be nipped in the bud so to speak.